Has anyone been watching Great Migrations? It doesn’t quite have the grandeur of the Ken Burns’ National Parks PBS documentary or the Planet Earth, whatever channel that was on. I’ve caught clips here and there of Great Migrations, but I have yet to sit through an entire episode. Should be a big deal, I’m sure it’ll be in repeat on the various cable programs for the next several years.
Expect to see more of these near catastrophes now that GoPro cameras are on top of everyone’s skulls. This one was shot at Mt. Baker.
One of these guys had been in the tram line since 11:30pm Opening Day’s Eve. I don’t understand why he didn’t just start walking to the top of the hill at 11:30pm and then get the first run off the tramdock right as the first tram was pulling in. Regardless, looks like the Wyoming season’s off to a good start.
Backcountry.com Athlete Greg Hill is still hammering up and down the mountains on his quest for 2 million feet of vert in one year. We’ve enlisted some of his other sponsors to kick down product we can give away. Give us your name and email and enter a guess. Enter here, and you can uncheck the box below the sign-up fields if you don’t want to get our marketing emails. If you’re really paranoid about your prized Gmail address, you can enter a fake email address (but then you won’t get the email telling you that you’ve won). Good luck.
Backcountry.com Athlete Renan Ozturk is in Chad with Jimmy Chin, Alex Honnold and a crew of climbers putting up first ascents and exploring the countryside. The North Face is sponsoring the trip, and the climbers are posting photos and writing about their trip as it goes on. It’s worth a look at it on The North Face site.
A small town sheriff in Idaho is insisting that the ‘SSS’ in his “.308 SSS Wolf Pack Raffle” stands for ‘safety, security, and survival’ and not ‘shoot, shovel, and shut up’ as animal rights groups and everyone else in the town is claiming. Apparently the ‘SSS’ designation is a popular feature on bumper stickers for sociopaths who advocate the elimination of all wolves. Hippies take note-do not try to hitchhike through Idaho County.
A crew from BBC shooting footage and talking about bears for an episode of Deep Into the Wild had a bit of a surprise. A bear. They contained their surprise fairly well. Surprise birthday parties must be pretty dull in England.
A New Jersey deer leapt into the fray during a morning turkey trot last week.
“Apparently, the deer was confused and excited when all the people were running together.”
It ran into a 7-year-old girl who was knocked down. The good news is that she wasn’t hurt, and received a fantastic lesson on wildlife and urban sprawl.
For two years Don Starkell and his sons paddled a custom, handmade 21-foot canoe from Winnipeg, Canada to Brazil. They made the 12,181 mile trip completely self supported, dodging drug runners, robbers, and pirates on the way. At the end of the expedition, Don turned his journey’s notes into a book, Paddle to the Amazon: The Ultimate 12,000-Mile Canoe Adventure. Hopefully he remembered to sign a permission slip for his boys to be out of class for so long as well.
via Cold Splinters
