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6 days ago | 
thetrek.co | Kelly Floro
With three candidates on the ballot for three open board seats, REI’s recent Board of Directors election should have been non-competitive. But in a surprising outcome reflecting growing discontent with the brand, co-op members have voted down all three candidates.
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6 days ago | 
flipboard.com | Kelly Floro
NowCamping season here we come. Spring is here, whatever that means in your part of the world. Here in New York, it's 70° and sunny. Elsewhere might be hotter or colder, but everywhere it's about peak hiking and camping season. If your outdoor wardrobe is looking a little worse for wear, rest assured …
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1 month ago | 
thetrek.co | Kelly Floro
A Pacific Crest Trail hiker near Whitewater, CA found herself in a harrowing situation recently when she slipped and fell partway down a steep cliff. Footage released on Monday by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office aviation unit, Rescue 9, shows what the unit described as an “intense, technical” rescue operation to safely extract her from the cliff face.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Kelly Floro
Cameras caught the Riverside County Sheriff’s aviation unit’s harrowing rescue of a female hiker, who teetered for over an hour on the edge of a …
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1 month ago | 
thetrek.co | Kelly Floro
Times change, but the Appalachian Trail always stays the same … or does it? For hikers, the white blazes can feel like the one constant in an unpredictable world, a safe haven we can return to again and again when the chaos of life feels like too much. “The trail will always be there,” we assure each other whenever one of us has to cancel a planned hike or get off trail earlier than expected.
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1 month ago | 
thetrek.co | Kelly Floro
Six weeks after mass layoffs slashed the size of the workforce in America’s National Park Service (NPS), Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has issued an order requiring parks to “remain open and accessible to the American public during the specified hours of operation.” Roughly 1,000 NPS workers were laid off in February. Some of those workers have since been offered their jobs back, although not all accepted.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Kelly Floro
ix weeks after mass layoffs slashed the size of the workforce in America’s National Park Service (NPS), Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has issued an …
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1 month ago | 
thetrek.co | Kelly Floro
I had the privilege of hiking the Peaks of the Balkans trail last September, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. This 114-mile loop includes stages in three countries — Albania, Montenegro, and Kosovo — and can be backpacked or done as a hut-to-hut hike. Truly, there’s no better way to experience the Albanian Alps (more memorably known as the Accursed Mountains) than on foot.
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1 month ago | 
thetrek.co | Kelly Floro
Two hikers on California’s remote Lost Coast Trail found themselves in a dire predicament last Saturday after they accidentally strayed off course, inadvertently following a game trail instead of the official footpath into what officials described as “a very dangerous portion of the cliffs above the beach.” One of the hikers fell over the edge and slid over 100 feet down the near-vertical landslide, where he clung, unable to move up or down, for over an hour while a painstaking multiagency...
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Kelly Floro
5 hours agoGrab unbeatable deals on outdoor gear from Merrell, CamelBak, and more before your next adventure in the wild. Whether you’re into camping, hiking, or relaxing in your backyard, there are endless ways to make the most of the warmer days ahead. Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is here to help kick off your …
