Outdoor product scams are nothing new, especially for premium or popular brands. Some find it hard to resist the lure of seemingly incredible pricing on gear or apparel with coveted labels. Some of these fake sites process the payment and do nothing afterward. Others send counterfeit products. 　　Our in short message? If its too good to be true, it probably...

　　A ski patroller strike at a popular Utah resort is expected to end Wednesday. In a short statement from the Vail Resort-owned Park City Mountain and the Park City Professional Ski Patrol Association, representatives for both the resort and the labor union said theyd reached an agreement. Though the details werent immediately available Wednesday morning, the deal should last through...

　　The outdoor retailer REI announced today that it was exiting its Experiences business, ending all adventure travel trips, day tours, and classes. As a result, hundreds of full-time employees and part-time guides will have their jobs eliminated, effective this week. 　　The co-op said in a statement it lost millions of dollars a year to fund Experiences. Even at its peak, the...

　　Colorado is at the center of a wildlife controversy. In August 2024, Parks and Wildlife were working to relocate the Copper Creek Pack from the area where they had been preying on livestock. Officials recaptured a recently reintroduced male gray wolf in Grand County. That wolf died in captivity shortly later. 　　Now, animal rights groups are offering an eye-wateringly large...

　　The 2024/25 ski season started in earnest overnight in Colorado. With 2 feet of fresh snow on the ground, I couldn’t help but cave to my powder addiction. On day one, I skied the resort until my legs fell off, and then immediately pivoted to ski, touring into the darkness to harvest more of the fluffy, cold smoke. 　　Salewa’s new...

　　In a previous lifetime, my idea of a long-distance hike was a music festival. For four days, I’d parade across dusty fields or clotted city streets, traipsing from stage to stage in pursuit of the next show. Who knows how many miles I clocked in those peripatetic bursts, but at that extended moment—a music critic in his 20s, way more...

　　When we started tallying up how many miles our group covered while testing watches, we ended somewhere around 4,000 miles. That’s like running and cycling from New York to San Francisco, then turning around and making it back to Nebraska. Throughout all those miles, a diverse group of testers—from everyday moms and dads to former Olympic Trials athletes—obsessed over the...

　　With his final days in office, President Joe Biden is trying to cement his legacy of environmental protections. On Tuesday, he announced the designation of two new national monuments in California, amounting to 848,000 acres of federally protected land. 　　That includes the Chuckwalla National Monument near Joshua Tree National Park, and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument near the Oregon border....

　　Life-long bowhunter Ethan Edwards doesnt let long hours at the office deter him from excelling at his passion. Getting a shot on a mature deer can be a challenge, says Edwards, but when it all comes together, theres nothing like it. 　　With limited time in the tree stand, Edwards relies on his Moultrie EDGE 2 PRO Cellular Trail Cameras to...

　　If you think automakers are pulling back on the EV market, don’t tell that to Honda. The Japanese automaker used this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to roll out a trio of battery-powered models, including a high-tech package developed in partnership with Sony, as well as two EVs based on the 0 Series concepts first unveiled at CES...

　　Labor negotiations continued on Tuesday between Vail Resorts and the union representing ski patrollers at Utah’s Park City Mountain Resort, owned by Vail Resorts. This is the second day of negotiations this week amid an ongoing labor strike. Around 200 Park City ski patrollers walked out of their locker room on December 27, during the resort’s peak holiday season, to...

　　Colorado elk are renowned for their deafening bugle and pointy antlers—but alas, not for their belaying skills. 　　On January 3, Ben Hake, the head of recreation in Lake City, Colorado received a call from two climbers at the towns local ice park. A bull elk, they said, had become ensnared in a climbing rope and was stuck on a steep hillside....