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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

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

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

There are a few things I hate

Last November I published my first post here at My Life Outdoors. In the course of that year the blog has changed in many ways. I am thankful for those who read on a regular basis and for my new readers. Without you I would see no purpose in writing and submitting the the reports and reviews available here.  To celebrate My Life Outdoors turning one I have been working on giving the blog a new look. I have created