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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

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

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

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

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

This is the last time I will ask you to do this. The Agion Active Glacier National Park Contest ends tonight and I am very close to winning. All I need is your votes. At the time I write this I am currently in first place. If you would be so kind please go and vote to keep me in first place. If I win

Outside Magazine and Travel Texas is offering the chance to win a trip to Big Bend National Park. The lucky winner will be given a 3 day/2 night float trip on the Rio Grande River through Far Flung Outdoor Center. To enter simply go to Outsideinfo.com/Texas and fill out your contact information.Paddling the Rio Grand in Santa Elena CanyonThe float trip is one I have dreamed of doing and almost went on last September. I canceled my trip when the

Salomon has unveiled a revolutionary ski design. The latest design from Salomon's ski designer Bertrand Krafft, the new BBR ski is unlike any ski ever made. According to Salomon:The patented “V” shape redefines skiing on all types of snow. An oversized tip and rocker shape enable it to float in powder and adapt to uneven terrain smoothly and predictably. With a narrow waist and pintail, a short radius and short effective edge on-piste, BBR provides great carving and outstanding edge grip