My Life Outdoors is now MyLifeOutdoors.com
After almost a year of patiently keeping my eye on mylifeoutdoors.com it has finally become available. From this point on the My Life Outdoors URL is www.mylifeoutdoors.com. The previous url, which was http://my-life-outdoors.blogspot.com, will now redirect to www.mylifeoutdoors.com. The blog will still be hosted on blogger, but thanks to some great blogger features, now has a custom domain name.If you feel so inclined please update any links or blogrolls that feature My Life Outdoors to the new domain: www.mylifeoutdoors.com.As you
Thank You for Your Votes! – I Won!
It has been a long contest to say the least. Back in January I signed up to become an offical Agion Active T-tester. The assignment? Go out and stink it up as much as you can. I was given a t-shirt that had one half treated with Agion Active anit-stink technology. The other half was just a plain t-shirt. I took the t-shirt to Enchanted Rock in the Texas hill country and hiked and climbed all day long. By the
Mountain Biking Big Bend Ranch State Park – TPWD Official Video
One of the outdoor sports I have never tried to get into is mountain biking. Not because it doesn't look like fun. I really just can't afford another expensive hobby. This new video from TPWD might convince me otherwise. It sure would be cool to cover 108 miles in four days. For those of you who are interested Big Bend Ranch State Park is located in far West Texas on the Texas/Mexico border up river from Big Bend National Park.
Leaving a Summit Log is a Federal Violation in National Parks
Summit Log on Sierra Blanca. Not a NP Summit.So not a violation.Have you ever left a summit log on a National Park summit? If you have your actions were a "federal violation." At least that is what Big Bend National Park is suggesting. A friend of mine on BigBendChat.com was recently sent an e-mail from an undisclosed park ranger at Big Bend National Park. The e-mail said:One of our back-country rangers just returned with a water bottle containing a notepad,
Garden of the gods – Colorado Springs, Colorado
Last week my family and I were in Colorado Springs for a work related conference. We took an extra day to sight see around town. No trip to Colorado springs is complete, in my opinion, without a stop at Garden of the gods. Garden of the gods is a free city park featuring huge red vertical sandstone formations. The formations can be seen from almost anywhere in the city and are an amazing beautiful natural formation.Garden of the gods
Help Raise $600,000 for Outdoor Charities by Just Clicking your Mouse.
Lowe's Home Improvement through their Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation is helping support four great charities by donating $1 Million dollars. Lowe's plans to support The National Park Foundation, Keep America Beautiful, Water.org, and American Forests each with $100,000. The remaining $600,000 will go to the above charity with the most votes. I first found out about this through The Smokey Mountain Hiking Blog. Jeff is asking everyone to support the National Park Foundation with their votes. The National Park
Ski Cooper near Leadville Colorado – Trip Report
Last week my family got to spend some time skiing at one of our favorite ski areas. Ski Cooper outside of Leadville Colorado is where I learned to ski more than 20 years ago. Over the last few years I have had the opportunity to teach my oldest daughter to ski on the same mountain.Sunset we enjoyed on our drive up to ColoradoI'm unsure of the name of this 14,000+ foot peak.Ski Cooper is a unique, inexpensive, family friendly ski
UPDATE on Magnum Precision Boot Review
An update from yesterdays Magnum Precision Boot Review. I may have made the color issue into too big of a deal. But none the less Magnum Boots has agreed to Exchange the boots. Instead of the yellow boots on the right
Boot Review – Magnum Precision Ultra-Lite WPI CT
For the past several weeks I have had the opportunity to review a pair of Magnum Precision Ultra-Lite WPI CT boots. I won the boots in a contest on Outdoor Bloggers Network. As part of the contest I had to agree to test and review the boots.My Pair of Magnum Boots. Hiking along the Saline BayouWhen I first opened the boots I was a little disappointed. The boots I received where not the same as the boots pictured in the
New Spot Connect – Turn Smartphones into Personal Satellite Communicators
You may have heard of the Spot Locater Beacon. Spot LLC has made great strides in making personal locater beacons affordable to the general public. They have also come out with some unique products by teaming up with DeLorme to create the DeLeorme PN-60w. Now spot has gone one step further and created Spot Connect. Spot Connect is a spot locater beacon that connects via Bluetooth to your smart phone.Simply download the Spot Connect app and your smart phone will