August 2006


August 2006

Featured Stories: Partners in Grime: Multisport Marriages


The same could be said for those rare athletes who balance a passion for their chosen sport with the responsibilities of a normal life. These superheroes are athletes like Jay and Monica Curwen, two of the top adventure racers in the Southeast who also happen to be full time parents, spouses, and owners of Black Dome, one of the most successful outfitters in Western North Carolina.

Featured Stories: Family Funsports


You’ve turned off the cell phone, put the home renovations on hold, and are ready to head into the woods. The snacks are packed, the kids are loaded in the car, but where are you gonna go? From the best car camping spots to easy-going hiking and whitewater, we’ve got you covered with beta on the best kid-friendly destinations in the Southeast.

Featured Stories: Trips for Outdoor Parents


Maybe you just had your first child and you want to maintain your adventurous lifestyle, or maybe you’re on kid number six and think it’s time to get back into the outdoors. Either way, our panel of expert adventure mommies and daddies dish their secrets to outdoor success with the kids.

Featured Stories: Meet the Neighbors


In a time when immigration is a hot button issue, BRO has decided to blur the border lines. Sure, we regularly give you the dirt on outdoor adventure in the Carolinas, Virginias, Georgia, and Tennessee, but now we’re ready to jump the fence and dig into the playgrounds of our neighboring states.

Featured Stories: Creek Walking


We call them streams, rivulets, branches, runs, and brooks. In spring they can be freshets. They are tributaries until you get to either end. But when you are talking about playing in a “small body of running water,” only “creek” will do. And when you hop across stones or hunt crayfish in a creek, you call that creek walking.

Featured Stories: Dog Days of Summer: World Frisbee Dog Championships Soar in the South


f you happen to find yourself meandering about Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Ga., on September 23-24, look out for flying dogs. And flying discs. Lots of them. I’m not talking about canines sprouting wings on a peculiar weekend in September; though I will say that the very sight of the act is miraculous nonetheless- and somehow the thought of mutated alien pooches will never even cross your mind.

Switchback: Is it okay to bushwhack off-trail when hiking?

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News of the Wood: Peak Baggers Cheat Sheet

Alan Kent Wilson remembers the toughest mountain he’s ever climbed in the South. “It was Reinhardt Knob. We didn’t have a good map, we started at the wrong place, it’s in a wilderness area so the routes aren’t marked, and it’s one of the most difficult bushwhacks around. There just isn’t a good way up that mountain.”

News of the Wood: MacGyver Moves

If you could hike with one person, living or dead, fictional or real, who would it be? ... there’s only one right answer to that question: MacGyver...Unfortunately, there’s not much chance of MacGyver showing up at your weekly club hike. So we’ve dug up five backcountry moves that even the most resourceful secret agent would be envious of.

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