Posted by Emily on Dec 12, 2011 in Blog, Causes, Featured, Outdoors, Rivers, Things We Like, Travel, Video | 0 comments
Chris Kassar taking the time to say a prayer at the proposed dam site of the Baker River. Patagonia, Chile. Photo: James Q Martin
by Chris Kassar via The Cleanest Line
Every time I kneel down next to a river – even if just for a moment – I swear I can hear it speak to me. I know this probably sounds crazy, but I also know I’m not the only one who hears wise murmurs rising from the ripples...
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Posted by Emily on Dec 9, 2011 in Blog, Causes, Featured, Friday Faves, Non-profits, Rivers, Things We Like, Video | 0 comments
We’ve been shooting out and catching a lot of love this week, so we’re going to go ahead and shout it out loud…
Anna Brones. You get big high fives for quite a few reasons this week, but especially for becoming my go-to music maven, especially for mashups like this, and this… and this.
Jenny Nichols. Umm… Wild Love is hitting full steam because of you, hot stuff....
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Posted by Emily on Nov 18, 2011 in Blog, Featured, Friday Faves, Things We Like, Video | 1 comment
“If I can only scrape a living, at least it will be a living worth scraping.”
I was fortunate to meet Mickey Smith this spring when he traveled to 5Point Film Festival with his beautiful film Darkside of the Lens. He’s charming, humble, creative and passionate. And amazingly forgiving.
Several of us — you know who you are — decided to get rowdy until 5 a.m. Mickey, jet-lagged and...
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Posted by Emily on Nov 11, 2011 in Adventure, Blog, Featured, Friday Faves, Things We Like, Travel | 1 comment
Right now I look out into my living room at a mass of gear being packed and re-packed. It’s the beginning of another expedition. For the last several years, we’ve been lucky enough to know and work with some of our community’s most celebrated adventurers. It’s hard not to be inspired when every day you’re talking to people who are out exploring, discovering, altering...
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Posted by Emily on Nov 4, 2011 in Blog, Featured, Friday Faves, Things We Like, Travel, Video | 0 comments
Nothing quite like a shot of Scandinavia to get the wanderlust pumping… it just took one look at the Adventure Journal’s Weekend Cabin post this week to have me dreaming of wool sweaters, a raging fire and hot Glögg nestled in my palms. Luckily, this cold, crisp Portland weather is the perfect setting to allow me to stoke my daydream along with the fire. That is until I can make...
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Posted by Emily on Nov 1, 2011 in Blog, Featured, Things We Like | 0 comments
Photo: Jon Jugenheimer
It’s time to pop the bubbly! Happy birthday Under Solen!
Over two years ago, after a night of flyfishing movies and while snuggled into a Portland bar with a crew of great friends, Under Solen was born. The idea had been there for months, but it took the perfect storm of fish porn, microbrews and very excited (and convincing) friends to take the leap. And leap we...
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