Backcountry Outlet
Sweet deals on a variety of items. I happily purchased a $170 techy synthetic down coat for $90 in the heart of winter gear season, not the middle of summer. No surprise, it was on sale nowhere else. Trust me, I looked.

REI Outlet
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NOLS - National Outdoor Leadership School
The only school that focuses on wilderness skills, leadership, and environmental ethics, is the leader in wilderness education.

Outward Bound
Their mission: inspire character development and self-discovery in people of all ages and walks of life through challenge and adventure, and to impel them to achieve more than they ever thought possible, to show compassion for others and to actively engage in creating a better world.

Adventure Life
Adventure Life is committed to providing quality small group tours that have a positive impact on the local culture and environment.

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High Country News
A fantastic zine, covering the weird, wild, wonderful West, with a capitol ‘W.’

Grist
Green, funny and informative. You can’t go wrong.

Orion Magazine
I’d never move East of the Continental Divide, except to go to work for Orion. I swear on that. A beautiful magazine, covering people, culture and place.

Local Harvest
I dig real stuff. This site is all about getting real. Real food, real farms, and in your community (or closer to it than South Africa anyway).

Life on Terra
As a recovering suburban television head, twelve years sober, I live for Life on Terra. They aptly describe it as “a collaborative film-space and laboratory exploring the questions and ideas on the cutting-edge of science and at the farthest horizons of the natural world.” I call it dang good.

Stories from the Heart of the Land
A fantastic collection of radio stories portraying our connection to the natural world and ourselves as a part of it. Listen to it online or download the podcast. Jay Allison is my hero.