Archive for the ‘Outside Magazine’ Category

The Outside Magazine ‘Adventure Grant’

Thursday, May 10th, 2012
In celebration of their 35th anniversary Outside Magazine is seeking proposals for its first annual Adventure Grant, a $10,000 endowment to help fund a "smart, creative, and (perhaps) slightly foolhardy project" that they will feature in an upcoming issue.

Outside offers a few examples of the kinds of "audacious" missions they're looking for (taken from Outside stories):

* Sailing a homemade raft down the Hudson River

* Walking a perfectly straight line across Canada's Prince Edward Island

* Paddling a canoe from Portland, Oregon, to Portland, Maine

If interested, and you think you have the right stuff, simply submit your proposed adventure by May 18th. Outside will then conduct a vote at facebook.com/outsidemagazine beginning on June 4th to decide the winner.


Jeff
Hiking Trails in the Smokies

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The AT and Great Smoky Mountains from a Chinese Perspective

Sunday, March 6th, 2011
The Kinda Long March: in which a team of Chinese men travel to the United States for the first time to hike the legendary Appalachian Trail — and find its manicured paths a little wimpy.

Outside Magazine has an excellent article in their March 2011 issue about six men from China who trekked across the Appalachian Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains (I assume last spring). Yang Xiao, the author, compares and contrasts the trail and the park to the fledgling sport of hiking in China, and provides a pretty unique and interesting perspective of the park, hiking in America, thru-hikers and tourists. It's a great read!

You can check it out by clicking here.


Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com

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The 127 Defining Moments

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
Next weekend is the opening of 127 Hours, the new film about Aron Ralston, the adventurer who sawed his arm off after it became pinned under a boulder in an isolated slot canyon in Utah

To celebrate the release of the film, Outside Magazine is launching the 127 Defining Moments Contest, which seeks to inspire people to share their own life-changing or death-defying experiences in the great outdoors.

Outside will select 126 of those entrants to go along with Aron's to create the 127 Defining Moments. The 126 winners will receive some great outdoor gear from Eddie Bauer, Sierra Designs, Larabar and CamelBak, including Ten Grand Prize gear packages.

The contest ends November 12. For more information and to enter, please click here. To read some of the current submissions, please click here.

You can check out the trailer for the film by clicking here.


Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com

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Test Your Survival IQ

Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Outside Magazine has an interesting little quiz on their website. The Outside Survival Quiz is designed to test your ability to survive in a number of situations - most of them in the wilderness.

I found several of the questions to be very challenging - obviously - I only got 7 out of 14 right!

To take the short quiz, please click here.

So how did you do?


> Today and tomorrow are your final opportunities for a chance to win a Yellowstone Photo Expedition. Please click here for more details.


Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com Detailed information on trails in the Smoky Mountains; includes trail descriptions, key features, pictures, video, maps, elevation profiles, news, hiking gear store, and more.

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