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A good down jacket is gold in the backcountry, keeping you warm on frosty mornings in a mountain campsite, or staving off a chill during a break on a ski or snowshoeing tour on a winter day. Today’s the last chance for you to enter to win an outstanding, lightweight puffy jacket stuffed with high-tech, water-resistant feathers, the Big Agnes Hole in the Wall Jacket.
On dayhikes in southern Utah, the Oboz Traverse Low hiking shoe won me over as one of the best new low-cut shoes of the year for its outstanding support and traction and light weight. Now I’m giving away a pair of the men’s Traverse Low or the equivalent women’s from Oboz, the Luna, at The Big Outside. And today is …
What’s not to like about a 9-ounce rain jacket that delivers complete protection from the elements, yet all but disappears inside your pack when you don’t need it? That’s why the Westcomb Focus LT Hoody is a winner. Now you have a chance to win one of these ultralight rain jackets: I’m giving one away at The Big Outside. Today’s …
My giveaway of a Ribz Front Pack ends at midnight tonight. The Ribz has become a standard piece of gear on my backpacking trips because it keeps my DSLR, a second lens, and small items like a map, snacks, and gloves in a readily accessible place: right in front of me. Now you have a chance to get one of these …
Book Review
Anything Worth Doing: A True Story of Adventure, Friendship and Tragedy on the Last of the West’s Great Rivers
By Jo Deurbrouck
197 pgs., Sundog Book Publishing, $15
Those of us who pursue adventure and challenge in nature sometimes cross a line into a place where life becomes fragile. But as the unfortunate who have stumbled inadvertently into that dark space learn, the threshold is never actually a distinct line; it’s a gray zone where we make a series of fateful decisions and are never granted the foresight to know what awaits at the end of them. In Anything Worth Doing, former whitewater rafting guide Jo Deurbrouck takes the reader on a riveting journey into the lives of two semi-legendary Idaho river guides, showing how a life lived well can sometimes end too soon.