Outdoor and Adventure News Round-Up: June 20, 2008

• Ice on Mars! from Discovery Magazine. This details the recent discovery (yesterday) that there may just be more to that red planet than meets the eye.
• Camping Conscientiously from The River Reporter. Yesterday we had the Basics of Ultralight Camping, now we add another priority. Our awareness.
• On The Trail of Adams and O’Keefe from Elmira’s Star Gazette out of New York. Tells about a new art exhibit showing how Georgia O’Keefe and Ansel Adams seen Yosemite National Park in 1938.
• Behold the Cardboard Bicycle from GetOutdoors. I am not sure how safe this thing is, but at least it is biodegradable!
• Aquagear Survivor Review from London Backpacker. No this isn’t a new Broadway Play, but after reading the review of the Aquagear Survivor water bottle, you just may be a few dollars shorter and have a tear in your eye.
• Mauled! from Outdoor Life. Describes a harrowing fight for survival with a 1,000 pound grizzly.
• New Jersey Woman Found Safe in North Maine Woods from Blogging the Maine Outdoors. Always nice to get something in from my fellow Skinny Moose bloggers. Great job!
• Wilderness First Aid Courses Coming to Indiana State Parks from Buckmasters. A nice look at a recent initiative to offer first aid classes to outdoor enthusiasts in my home state. To bad it’s not closer. Up North, guys, Up North!
• Motorcycling The Andes Part II from The Adventure Blog. I linked up the first part yesterday, and will probably get the third in tomorrow. Nice read, though.
• ‘Take Your Gun To Work’ Bill Approved from the News Star out of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. That’s right–it might just become legal.

Yesterday’s Outdoor & Adventure News Round-Up seemed to be quite popular, so I thought…you know? Why not do it again. So here it is. There should be something of interest to just about everyone-

Outdoor and Adventure News Round-Up: 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–