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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. 

 
Tomorrow is #PublicLandsDay and what better way to celebrate than getting outside with Friends + Family. The possibilities are endless. You can: go on a hike, visit a National Park for free, sign your 4th grader up for a free National Park Pass for the school year, visit an educational center, Be a trail steward, pick up at least 10 pieces of trash, pledge to vote the outdoors this November, go for a run on your favorite neighborhood path, kayak one last time at your favorite lake, visit a wildlife refuge. ____ The options for you are truly endless. Maybe that’s the best part about outdoor recreation- you have the freedom to choose and create an experience that is uniquely your own, and as long we continue to advocate to protect our public lands + be good stewards, then no one will ever be able to take the freedom to recreate away from you.
BioLite has done it again!! We were just talking about how great it would be if #BioLite created a headlamp that is rechargeable, and it’s as if they heard us! ____ Today, they launched their #kickstartercampaign which allows new ideas + designs to have creative space to breathe, away from a crowded space, such as headlamps. _____ It illuminates the area in front of you with 330 lumens, it’s rechargeable, ultra thin, and weighs only 69g. You may forget that you are wearing it. _____ When we tested it at our local state park, we loved the 3D slim construction that molded around our foreheads as it sits flat. And if you have followed us for awhile, then you’ve probably noticed that we use BioLite to charge our off- grid adventures. We can finally ditch the batteries! _____ If you support BioLite on this Kickstarter campaign, then you will also receive a light diffusing stuffsack that will illuminate your space even more by simply storing the headlamp in the sack with the light on. You’ll even receive it in time for Holiday Season 2018. _____ I pledged for the Ocean Teal Headlamp, and you can too by visiting the link in our bio.
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This summer, I greened my thumb and grew my obsession with lavender. As @bendsoapcompany would say, I ditched the toxins and replaced them with lavender. Everything. We have an apartment, so i went against standard advised and potted 2 lavender plants. Not knowing what to expect, or how well they would thrive in a pot, I followed the sun with the season, waiting for the blossoms + bees. Overall, I’d say it was a successful season. I got one bloom from the younger plant, and had 2 from the older plant, with it still blossoming. This season, my obsession with lavender has opened my mind to sustainable practices, and growing a deep appreciation for lavender farms. Have you ever bought a lavender plant directly from a farm before?