Outdoor and Adventure News Round-Up: June 19, 2008

June 19, 2008

Going Ultralight-The Basics From the Santa Barbara Independent. A nice look at taking your camping and hiking to a lesser level.
Juneau Islands Become Parks from JuneauEmpire.com A look at the twenty year effort to establish these magnificent islands as part of Alaska’s marine Park System
Friends Film Fatal Quarry Jump from Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette. A gruesome look at a recent incident pretty close to home, for me.
Austin Man Sails Around the World in 7 Years from the Statesman. A successful attempt from an Austin, Texas native to sail around the world. Pretty cool read.
Off-Roaders, Environmentalists To Square Off in Congress from the Seattle Times. A nice look at the battle between these two factions and where it is heading for the future
Motorcycling The Andes from The Adventure Blog.
Grand Teton Gets largest Addition Since 1950 from The Backpacker Magazine Blog
Life as a Top Climbing Photographer from 8a.nu

Just a few links to curb your outdoors and adventure hunger. There is just to much stuff going on for me to cover everything, some of these are new, some of them I have been holding on to for a few days in hopes of making a post. Needless to say, that didn’t happen, so now I offer them to you–enjoy the reading–

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