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Ancient Desert Skills Backpacking Trip

In our fast paced modern lives its difficult to develop a strong connection to the natural world that surrounds us, most of our time spent in nature is fast paced and often times our brains are cluttered with thoughts from the day. Here at Adventure Out we understand how hard it is to develop a connection with nature in our busy lives, and that’s why we offer our Ancient Desert Survival Skills Backpacking trip. Ancient Desert Skills Backpacking trip is a rare opportunity to fully immerse yourself deep into the natural world, On the trip we will take on the mindset of the local native Kumeyaay and Cahuilla tribal people of the Anza Borrego, You will learn and use the ancient skills that the Kumeyaay and Cahuilla people relied on for survival for hundreds of years! Check out the Course Description for more information! : http://www.adventureout.com/anza_borrego.html

Celebrate Spring

Each leaf,
each blade of grass
vies for attention.

Even weeds
carry tiny blossoms
to astonish us.
- Marianne Poloskey

For more springtime poetry, click here

winter adventures

The rains have come again and the outdoor enthusiast is trapped inside. There are those bold few who venture out into the wet and cold- which is always rewarding. But what about us less hard-core types who are very fond of a stable core body temperature? What do we do when we can not scratch that adventure itch?

Answer: get together with fellow enthusiasts and watch people who are really, REALLY good at what they do. I am referring to, of course, the Banff Mountain Film Festival.

Pack your backpack and hike on over to the Rio Theater the evenings of February 26th and 27th because the shows start at 7pm. For more information including a description of the films (each night is a new series of films), click here

get outside and do some good

Ever wonder how you can combine your love of the outdoors with positive change?

The Ventana Wilderness Alliance is a volunteer- run organization dedicated to keeping the Ventana Wilderness wild and open for public use. Projects include trail maintenance, watershed restoration, and removal of illegal grow projects.

Their mission statement:
The Ventana Wilderness Alliance is a grass- roots organization whose mission is to protect, preserve, and restore the wilderness qualities and biodiversity within public lands within Northern California's northern Santa Lucia Mountains and Big Sur coast.

If you are interested about this organization or want to know more about the breathtaking trails of the Ventana Wilderness, click here

If you would like to part of a larger land management community with more lasting effects, consider attending the Western Wilderness Conference in April. For more information, click here

Happy Trails!

Free Bike Race

Attention Bicycle Enthusiasts!
The UC Santa Cruz bike co-op is hosting “Coop d’état bicycle alley cat”. It’s a fun race around up and down the hills of campus involving a scavenger hunt and games. If you can’t make it to the race, the Co-op is a great resource for bicycle know- how.

Date: Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Start Time: 1pm
Start Point: The Bike Co-op (Upstairs above the Bookstore)
Registration Fee: FREE!

For more information about the bike co-op, click here

Surf Ecology - Rio De Janeiro

We've got an exciting field report from one of our Adventure Out surf instructors, Melissa Leggett. Melissa has been down in Brazil all winter long starting up an amazing program to get local kids more involved in taking care of their beaches. In Melissa's words

I have been giving surf lessons with environmental education and beach clean-ups afterwards to the local children of Macumba beach, most of which are children of the owners of the beachside kiosks. Most of the trash on the beach here comes from people buying food at the kiosks, so the idea is that these children will share this information with their parents who will encourage people to pick up their trash from the sand. We've been seeing great results so far; a few of the kids clean up the beach on their own, and people on the beach are leaving their trash in piles instead of spread across the sand. We've been giving these classes for free, and are working on getting sponsorship for the program.

Sounds like amazing work. If you're interested in the program, let us know and we can put you in touch with Melissa.