I’m not sure if today is the best or worst day to discuss protecting our winters. Regardless, here’s Jeremy Jones stating his case for keeping snow around. Viva la snow!
Category Archives: Hiking
Jeremy Jones Talks About Protecting Winter
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180 Degrees South
I’ve spent the last few weeks fighting general malaise, mostly with general anesthetic, who is much more interesting if less useful than general semantics. Love that joke. Anyway, I don’t mean to get overly personal but I’ve had trouble finding much inspiration recently which is not a happy place to be. Last night I was [...]
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Hexayurt’s for Haiti
There is plenty of information in the mediasphere on how you can donate to help the victim’s of the Haitian earthquake, though there is little discussion that I have seen on practical solutions for implementing the financial aid that is pouring in. But then this morning, I noticed the Dangerous Mind’s post on Chicago’s Vinay [...]
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Full Outsider’s Almanac Website Still Coming
Don’t lose hope dear internetting ones, we still have every intention of launching the full Outsider’s Almanac website in the near future, it just won’t be quite as soon as we had hoped. We’re pretty insanely busy these days, between writing projects, client needs, body/mind/spirit rehabbing and the pursuit of winter in it’s many splendered [...]
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Urban Caveman Movement Taking Hold
Film maker, OA Woody Creek correspondent and all around American Hero Wayne Ewing sent me an article today about a new movement taking foot in the shadows of New York City. Self-proclaimed urban cavemen sustain themselves solely on red meat and some vegetables and fruits. In addition, they eat in a manner that would mimic [...]
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Cross-Country Ski Trails in Chicago
Matty and I are heading out early in the morning for our first XC ski outting of the season. It’s supposed to be fairly cold tomorrow so we’re trying to find an alternative to the lake front which can be downright vicious on a good day. We’ve done Herrick Lake in the past, but for [...]
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Tauntaun Sleeping Bag!
Holy crap this is awesome! ThinkGeek is offering a tauntaun sleeping bag this Christmas season complete with gut filled liner and a light saber to open the tauntaun with. I totally need one of these so I have the proper receptacle to pee my pants from excitement in!
Quinoa Mushroom Soup
I scrubbed this off the Backpacker.com blog. It’s a delicious soup that is easy to haul with you on hikes or multi-day bike rides. Quinoa-Mushroom Soup Serves 2-4, 1/2 cup dry shiitake mushrooms, sliced 2 cups baby chard 2 cloves garlic, sliced 12 snow peas or green beans, cut in thirds 1 cup quinoa 1 [...]
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How to Make a Mushroom Shelf
Here’s a really cool tutorial on how to make shelves from mushrooms found while hiking. I’m pretty excited to give this a try.