Outdoor Recreation

There is an undeniable connection between the way you take care of yourself and how you show up for your community.

“Self-care” is a term we are hearing more often these days. It’s been a tough couple of years for most of us, and it has led to a reimagining of what we need to feel and perform at our best. Often this comes back to how we take care of ourselves, and that conversation is inspiring new practices.

Defining Self-Care

What does it mean to take care of yourself? What does it look like to take care of others? On a basic level, self-care is anything you do to meet your needs. Group care is the service and empathetic actions you and your group take to care for each other. It’s hard to have community care without self-care. And if you do, it’s probably unsustainable. Filling our cup by

Creating a beautiful outdoor living space in your small yard can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be impossible! By following some tried-and-true design tips, you can create outdoor living spaces that look and feel large.

Here are five tips to get you started

Use Walls Strategically

When designing outdoor living spaces for a small yard, it’s important to use walls strategically. You can use walls to create privacy, define different areas, and even add extra storage. Plus, using vertical space can help make a small yard feel larger.

Here are some tips on how to use walls when designing outdoor living spaces:

• Create your own private space with an evergreen hedge or bamboo screens that can be arranged in a number of ways depending on the amount of privacy you want.
• Add interest with containers overflowing with colorful flowers, lush succulents, or lively herbs; you’ll enjoy watching them

Weatherby not only makes some of the world’s best bolt-action rifles with the strongest actions possible, but they also produce some tremendous shotguns as well. In fact, they have taken their 18i semi-automatic shotgun and given it some new camouflage patterns and expanded the chamber to a 3″ magnum. Now, you can get the Weatherby 18i Waterfowler 3″ Magnum in a First Lite Cypher, Realtree Max-7, and Mossy Oak Habitat camouflage pattern as well as a traditional black synthetic, too.

Weatherby Coverage on AllOutdoor

Hardcore goose and duck hunters can rejoice now that the Weatherby 18i Waterfowler is available in a 3” magnum chamber plus First Lite Cypher, Realtree Max-7, and Mossy Oak Habitat camouflage patterns. This allows for more payload on birds which translates into more harvested waterfowl and more ethical harvests as well. The MSRP for the Weatherby 18i Waterfowler 3″ Magnum in all of

It’s hard to tell what was going through Brett Jatrinski’s mind when he pulled the trigger on a 4-year-old billy goat on Aug. 12, 2022, three days before Alaska’s draw-only mountain goat season opened. But one thought is particularly unlikely: that someone was hunkered down over 400 yards away, watching and filming him through a spotting scope.

That person was Ketchikan resident and mountain goat hunting guide Marvin McCloud. McCloud, 41, was out in the backcountry on Achilles Mountain scouting for an upcoming hunt at the time. A client would arrive in a few weeks with an elusive, highly sought-after mountain goat tag for the same area. (Just three draw tags and a single Governor’s tag are distributed for this draw-only district every season.) McCloud wanted to be ready to put him on a quality billy when the time came.

He found a few nice billies and filmed them for

One of the major “perks” of working as a field instructor, guide, or senior staff in the outdoor education and adventure-based programming sector of the outdoor industry used to be an offer of free or low-cost housing. Today, that incentive is more elusive, both for employees at our peer organizations and the staff we hire here at The National Center for Outdoor & Adventure Education (NCOAE).

Affordable staff housing — or the lack thereof — tops the list of major financial issues facing those of us who oversee the experiential education programs we run at NCOAE. Our instructors and staff come from around the globe to teach and facilitate our outdoor adventure and education programs. And for us, it has always been important that when they arrive on campus, we attempt to make sure the stress of basic needs does not overshadow the joy of the work.

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An Interview with Outward Bound Alum, Jim Koch: Chairman and founder of Boston Beer Company, and brewer of Sam Adams beer by Daniel Lilienthal 

Going Outward Bound 

Jim Koch is one of the world’s most successful beer brewers, creating Sam Adams beer out of his kitchen in the early 1980s. He’s given hundreds of interviews, mostly about his product and his business, but until recently, had never been interviewed or told the story of his connection to the organization that gave him the confidence and leadership skills to pursue such a bold venture. 

That organization? Outward Bound. 

Born in Ohio, educated in Boston, Jim Koch found his way to Outward Bound in the early 1970s. Dropping out of Harvard as a graduate student, Jim moved out to Colorado to begin a 3-year stint as a student, assistant Instructor, and then full-Instructor at Outward Bound, moving from schools and base camps

If you are looking to make your outdoor living space even better, while also trying to increase the value of your property, then having a pergola or gazebo installed is an excellent idea. Not only are these features incredibly enjoyable for you, but they also increase the value of your property for multiple reasons. Here are three great reasons why a pergola or gazebo will increase the value of your property.

More Outdoor Living Space

One reason why a pergola or gazebo will increase the overall value of your property is because it helps to increase the amount of outdoor living space that you have. This helps your home to appraise for more, which in turn will allow you to then sell it for more money.

It Makes Your Home More Appealing To Buyers

If a potential buyer sees that you have invested in your outdoor living space by installing