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The Hiking Initiative
 
 

Our Mission:

Educate, Encourage, and Empower.

We help people speak up for public lands while sharing stories of adventure, gear reviews, and outdoor advocacy. Showing that anyone can share their love of the outdoors. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
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What We Strive For

The outdoors has no age limit, no gender requirements, no bias. As a human collective, we should follow these same steps to ensure that everyone has equal access to our outdoors spaces. If you don't know where to start, we want to help guide you.  

 

 

Who We Support: 

 

The companies and organizations we support have a mission to help us all become better stewards of our lands. 

 

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A simple way to support our mission and provide better content for our pack. We have awesome projects in the pipeline, and we want as many readers as possible to be included in this exclusive-access. As a Patron, you provide us with insights to the matters that are most important to you. What does advocacy mean to you? How do you transform that into momentum? What are projects we can implement with these funds? Patreon is the simplest way to remove the ads from our site, for good. 

 
Have you ever spent time on the #OregonDesertTrail ? This includes hiking, biking, paddling, skiing, running- any type of recreation. _____ The @oregondeserttrail is conducting a survey that will help determine the social and economic impact of the trail. They want to know who is spending time on the trail, where are they from, and are they spending? Eastern Oregon often gets overlooked as it can be several hours from PDX, but it offers thru- hiking and recreation for every user. _____ If you aren't aware, the ODT can be a 750-mile route (or 23 smaller segments) located on public land + public rights-of-ways. With ONDA, the ODT blends exploration of the Oregon high desert with a heightened sense of responsibility to protect, defend, and restore Oregon's high desert for generations to come. LINK IN BIO TO COMPLETE SURVEY
We, the people, deserve representation in DC that is relfective of our values. I seriously question when- one of Oregon's Senators, Jeff Merkley- ever has time to sleep. 3 Town Halls in one day, 11 Town Halls in 3 days, and 369 overall. But for reals, he is working hard for Oregonians and I feel incredibly honored to have had the opportunity to meet him. Not gonna lie. I about passed out after being the last person to ask a question, but opportunities like this remind me of the journey + importance of learning what democracy is all about. Hold your Reps accountable, and raise questions if they aren't hosting any Town Halls. Side note: it is hilarious that he bent down to my level!
City hall was PACKED last night. Constituents were excited to support their city council, specifically the newly elected. We honored Re-elected Council Woman Barb Campbell, first- time Council Woman Gena Goodman-Campbell, and the first elected mayor in 90 years Sally Russell. It was incredibly inspirig to watch these 3 women swear in and give their oath to support the Constitution and laws of the United States, the State of Oregon, and the City of Bend. These women give us hope, leading a path for future women to run for office... Can we take note of how badass it was that Gena swore in while holding her baby? It is truly a new age of activism.
5 years together, 4 homes lived in, 3 states lived in, 2 additional dogs, 1 wild adventure. 2019 is off to a great start ✨