Last night I happened to come across an episode of Top Gear on the History Channel. I’ve only seen this show one other time, but this particular episode caught my eye. They were in the Alaskan wilderness driving three massive, American-made pick-up trucks. One driver had a Chevy, another had a Dodge and the final driver had a Ford. The drove across the state completing in multiple off-roading challenges… the winner ultimately having to touch a glacier with their truck.
It was an exciting episode filled with awesome trucking, stunning …

In Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley (famous for their wolf pack), a red fox was recently spotted with an unusual black fur coat. Red foxes aren’t always red. They can also experience varied color phases of silver, gray, yellow — but rarely have we seen black. In my opinion, this is the coolest looking fox I’ve ever seen.

Red fox with a rare black coat hunting in Lamar Valley (Photo by Pauline Murrill)

This video confirms why I don’t want to run into a wolverine in the wild… look at that thing jump! I like my odds vs. a hungry grizzly more than a Phantom Wolverine.

It took two and a half years for Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and the Corps of Discovery to cross the great unknown, reach the Pacific Ocean and return home to St. Louis safely. It all started in 1804 after Thomas Jefferson finalized the Louisiana Purchase from the French… Jefferson needed the new land explored, charted and marked with a new American presence. The ultimate goal was to find a navigable waterway that would connect the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis & Clark failed to find such a waterway …

Please take all precautions when hiking or camping in bear country.

Image by Bitterroot on Flickr
“Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise. Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the …

Is existence of Bigfoot is one of the last remaining mysteries in the world. For hundreds of years, there have been reports of Bigfoot all across the country. He looks in house windows, bangs on trees, throw’s rocks at people or just strolls through the woods. But with all the sightings, we have yet to capture a Bigfoot dead or alive. All we ever get are grainy pictures or shaky cell phone camera quality video. One of the first video captures of Bigfoot – allegedly – came from the Patterson-Gimlin …

Amongst hikers in America, the Pacific Crest Trail stands high on the list of the best hiking trails available, especially for those of you on the west coast. I have hiked sections of the PCT, but have never full engulfed myself in all that she is… that is, until I saw a show on the National Geographic Channel about thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. I learned a lot in that one hour of television. But, how much do you know about it? And is it a route that you will …

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“A passion for the high mountains requires some measure of poetic imagination, a love of beauty for its own sake and the appreciation of achievement totally unrelated to any tangible rewards.”
- Arthur Oliver Wheeler