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Austin, Creator - More on me below :)
Our goal is to take your adventures a little further than your average hiking blog…
…and to give you the planning tools needed to get there.
We’ll help you get you away from the busy, predictable hiking trails, and out to the stuff that REALLY inspires…
…to bring a heart-pumping, eye-opening RUSH to your relationship with the outdoors!
We’ll fuel your interest in outdoor sports like rock climbing, mountain biking, and canyoneering…
(Hint: click any photo to navigate ^ )
…and get you out of the crowded campgrounds into vast open land where you can set camp, let loose and howl at the moon.
(You can click these too ^ )
We’ll even lay out everything you need to nail your next (or first) backpacking trip,
including how to win those hard-to-get wilderness permits!!
These bigger experiences take planning, but we’ve got you covered!
Use the options below to navigate…
…And if you like what we’re doing, follow our journey and let us know!
About Austin
Pictures say a thousand words, and this one is probably no exception (except that I’m usually much safer when I climb).
Originally from Portland, OR, I’ve ALWAYS had a strong draw toward adventure, and usually do anything I can to get my friends and family involved.
In the era where many of us live our social lives through our phones, I’m fascinated by a good adventure’s ability to yank us off of the lonely islands of our digital world and bring us together as a beautiful tribe of explorers. There’s something about the combination of fun, sheer challenge and natural beauty that inherently emboldens a group of adventure seekers to rely on each other, bond together and use our unique strengths to achieve a goal worth celebrating.
It’s a beautiful formula—improve ourselves by helping each other! Through a lifetime of adventure, I’ve seen the outdoors enable people to dig down and bring the best out of themselves and each other.
In that spirit, these adventures have become much more than just a fun weekend hobby, and more of a philosophical framework and/or microcosm for life’s greater meaning and a formula for self-improvement.
Also I like dogs.
……and whiskey. :)
