Great Outdoors – DeadSplinter

Photo of the south fork of the Boise River outside of Pine, Idaho.

Deadsplinter Up! All Night: Take Me To The River

We spent the last four days/three nights in the Boise National Forest, on the south fork of the Boise River, with no cell phone access. ‘Twas glorious. Thanks to my

Photo of two skiers working their way up a mountain under sunny skies.

Deadsplinter Up! All Night: Mountains, Please

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If everything went OK, I should have returned yesterday from a snowshoe trip to a yurt a couple hours north of here. I love mountains in the winter. I don’t

Photo of tree silhouettes against a starry night sky.

Deadsplinter Up! All Night: Naturally

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Been spending a lot of time outdoors. While not exactly roughing it, we are getting more used to some of the issues — mosquito bites, dust/dirt everywhere, sweating for no

Deadsplinter Up! All Night: The Great Outdoors

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We’re going with the natural world, where I’ve spent the last 9 days or so. In the heat, with the bugs, trying not to smell worse than a restaurant dumpster

Winter Adventure: Snowshoe to a Yurt

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Two weeks before the Christmas weekend, five of us — four adults and one 5.5-year-old — hiked in to a backcountry yurt for a two-night stay. I figured it was

Deadsplinter Up! All Night: Exhausted, Again

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When this publishes, I will have returned on Sunday from a ski and snowshoe trip to a back-country yurt. I’m sure it was beautiful, but I’m also sure that I