Building for the Dream Race in Ways Unconventional to Me
It was two years ago when my son, then ten years old, approached me with a Salomon video of The Ultra Trail Du Mont Blanc (UTMB) 100-mile race, and asked when ...
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Outdoor Updates: How to stay safe if you’re stuck outside in a lightning storm
Friday, July 19How to stay safe if you’re stuck outside in a lightning stormSummer is the season we take to the trails and waterways for some warm weat...
Women’s Wednesday: Retreat Like a Woman
I began our first session all together by asking the question,” Why are you here?” and I was not prepared for the multitudes and depth of answers that would co...
Outdoor Updates: Under Trump’s guidance, Park Rangers are being sent to patrol the border
Wednesday, July 17Pilot whales beach themselves in GeorgiaYesterday, pilot whales repeatedly beached themselves on St. Simon’s Island off the coast of ...
“Whatever you do to the land will come back to you.”
New mini-documentary highlights the indigenous fight to protect ANWR.Photo by: Greg Balkin"If they open the refuge, I'm gone," said filmmaker Dr. Len N...
Asheville – Land of the Sky
https://youtu.be/enUCO2QDQgUThis is the song that you'll be happy is stuck in your head all day.It's no secret that Asheville is a well-loved and vib...
Cover Photo Contest Winner!
Congratulations to Justin Potter, winner of BRO’s Cover Photo Contest! Readers selected Potter’s image of Roan Mountain as their favorite from 15 finalists and...
Historic Land Controversies Re-emerge in Path of Pipeline
There’s a poem that keeps coming back to me. It’s one of those aphoristic poems that shows something so clearly it comes to embody a particular thought. That t...
How Carvins Cove became a Recreation Mecca
A small landslide on a crude social trail at Roanoke, Virginia’s Carvins Cove Reservoir in 1997 was the first in a chain of events that culminated about 20 yea...
Outdoor Updates: All beaches in Mississippi are closed due to a toxic algae bloom
All beaches in Mississippi are closed due to a toxic algae bloomPlanning to take a dip in Mississippi’s Gulf Coast anytime soon? Think again. All of Missis...
Beating the Heat in the Utah Desert
As we barreled west across Kansas back to Colorado, we couldn't help but think of the Utah desert. So much so, that Roxy began to have dreams about it. We gaze...
Austin Howell’s Final View
Free soloist Austin Howell died June 30th after falling more than 80 feet from Shortoff Mountain in Burke County. He was well loved and known as an impressivel...
Road Warriors
Have you ever wanted to just head out onto the road and see where life takes you? BRO talked with some people who did just that. We found out how they are trav...
36 cars full of coal fell into the Great Dismal Swamp
Cleanup of coal train derailment in Virginia swamp could take weeksThe cleanup of a coal train that derailed in Virginia’s Great Dismal Swamp National Wild...
Free Climber Austin Howell dies in Linville Gorge
BURKE COUNTY, N.C. - Free soloist Austin Howell died Sunday after falling more than 80 feet from Shortoff Mountain in Burke County, officials said.Burke Co...