Roadkill is organic. Preservative-free. You’re saving the earth by recycling food instead of leaving it to rot or go to the grocery store. And in winter, roadkill is conveniently refrigerated until you have time to scoop it up and take it home. But is it safe to eat? Who knows. A man interviewed in this Food Safety article has been chowing down for 30 years and he seems okay - I bet he gives out homemade sausage every year at Christmas. Would you eat roadkill?

You have to hand it to rock climbers for making slacklining kind of cool. Before they started doing it during rest days at camp, tightrope walking was the wheelhouse of magicians and trapeze artists. A group of friends took 36 days to setup 14 slacklines and make this film. They also have a website selling their DVD.

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Michael Ferrara is marching 900 miles across Alaska and blogging about his adventure for Outside. I don’t often follow these hiking trips, but Michael’s opening line of this blog post caught my attention:

Throughout this trip one of the big drawbacks has been the fact that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing.

You have to respect a guy who decides to charge 900 miles across a state with no idea what he’s doing, plus, the point of his hike is to raise awareness for first responder diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder so it’s okay to get behind him. This most recent post includes an injury that comes from falling through a laundry room floor. Enjoy.

EarlyUps of Jackson Hole has done us a favor by pulling together the top funny ski videos from this season. Though who knows, with all the snow from the West Coast to the Midwest maybe they were a bit premature. I for one hope to see a few more videos of people getting dragged through city streets on their skis.

Rich kids in my high school would get caught with drugs and their parents would send them on a weeklong NOLS camp. They should have sent them on a journey like this instead. During college summer break 14 kids spent 52 days paddling some extraordinarily remote rivers in the Yukon and Northwest Territories. They had to haul their canoes and gear (each loaded with 650 pounds of supplies) over the Continental Divide. They also made a movie about it that you can watch on Vimeo.

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Watching this video actually makes my palms sweat, though to be fair, I sweat kind of a lot. Apparently Ueli Steck does not need to worry much about sweat or overheating as he had all his blood replaced with ice water. Backcountry.com Athlete Don Bowie was on hand for 10.5-hour (20 hours up-and-down) charge on Shishapangma, the world’s 14^th tallest peak. Bowie penned this firsthand account of how it all came together so quickly.

Xavier de le Rue and Jeremy Jones met up in Jackson Hole to take advantage of conditions and shoot for their film project Further. They got some help from Jimmy Chin, though friend of Backcountry.com and filmmaker Renan Ozturk didn’t fare so well on the same trip. Skiing and snowboarding films are evolving at a staggering speed, and it’s these guys at the bleeding edge. Should be an insane movie.

Something tells me these guys are not conventional ski patrol. Hopefully no one was up there. And hopefully there weren’t too many people buried at the bottom. They should have just kept firing into it as it roared down the mountainside…couldn’t have hurt, anyway.

It seems that some hikers or campers in Blairsville, Georgia haven’t been properly storing their food which has led to the U.S. Forest Service closing a short stretch of the Appalachian Trail. The section is from Neels Gap to Jarrard Gap, though I have no idea whether that’s 200 yards of 200 miles because Google Maps hasn’t rolled out their ‘gap’ feature yet. The good news is that hikers can still walk through it, they just can’t camp there. The bad news is that there are a ton of bears there hungry for human food, so walking through there might not be the safest part of the trip.