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How to Make Your Own Pemmican

Welcome to pre-winter, the exciting hunting season when the deer are lively and the game is on! Living off-grid in the woods, I’ve discovered the ...
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Find Outdoor Time After School Hours

Transitioning from the freedom of summer to school is bittersweet, even with the positive benefits of a scheduled routine, return to youth sports, and other ...
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What are Primitive Skills?

It occurred to me as I was reading my own Out There article last month in printed form that, as a writer for a column ...
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Books and the Affordable Tourist of Time

For those of us who are explorers of the world and senses, the curious of time and place, the tinkerers of history and optimists of ...
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Rodents of Restoration

Busy as a beaver is not just a quaint phrase. These rodents can transform a landscape in a matter of days, creating fastidiously managed dams, ...
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Finding the Perfect Pace

Lessons from Unexpected Teachers Online influencers, running group coaches, my much-faster friends: all have impacted my running life with their words and actions. Recently, I’ve ...
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Inland NW Trail & Outdoor News

Outdoorsy Events Let Your Voice Be Heard! The Blue Mountains region, consisting of the Umatilla, Wallowa-Whitman, and Malheur National Forests, is currently undergoing a revision ...
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The Full Moon Fiasco

The moon’s gravitational pull causes the rising and falling of tides in our planetary oceans; we humanoid creatures composed of 70% water have no hope ...
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For the Love of a Place

It had been five years since I’d hiked to the lake. It was a modest alpine lake in the northeast Cascades, tucked in the Lake ...
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