Favorite Gear: 2008
From: 2008 Backpacking Light Staff PicksEvery year, our staff identifies their favorite gear of the year. This "staff picks" article is consistently among the most popular we publish, and, as is the case when…
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In Defense of Wild Places Through Art: Monte Dolack’s “Light in the Wild” Featured in This Month’s Big Sky Journal
The most validated inspiration for supporting the conservation of a wild place comes from spending time in that wild place, and understanding the impact that wild place has on your well-being. This is perhaps…
Should Your Puzzler be Sore?
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? [Christmas] came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes…
The Time Machine Rock
I found a two-ton granite boulder wandering along the banks of the Madison River near Norris, MT a few weeks ago, and spent 22 minutes of my life focusing my vision only eight inches…
NeoNeato (Lots of Patents Pending)
Holy grails do not exist, in spite of our best efforts to keep their ... holiness ... in context, design them according to our exact specifications, or even wish them into that stature. …