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Austin - Founder/Owner
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 usually wear a helmet 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 anxious social lives through our phones, I’m fascinated by the soul-warming effect of a great adventure. So effortlessly, it yanks us off of our lonely digital islands and brings us together as a purposeful tribe of explorers. The combination of natural beauty, sheer challenge and high thrill inherently emboldens a group of adventure seekers to bond together and use their unique strengths to achieve a goal worth celebrating.
It’s a formula as old as our species itself—improve ourselves by building our team, improve our team by building ourselves. Through a lifetime of adventure, I’ve seen the outdoors enable people to discover brilliant traits they didn’t they had 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, a microcosm for life’s greater meaning, and a formula for self-improvement.
Also I like dogs.
……and whiskey. :)
