Category Archives: Causes
Casting 4 A Cure Hooks Concert at Spud
Jim Stanford wrote this on Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Tagged as Fishing, Idaho, Music+ Categorized as Causes, Inspiration
Last year we reported on the largeness (of trout) and largesse (of donations) netted in the inaugural Casting 4 A Cure fly fishing competition. The events in Steamboat, Colo., and Teton Valley, Idaho, raised money [...]
continue readingFirst Descents Camp for Cancer Survivors
Andy Fleming wrote this on Saturday, August 14th, 2010
Tagged as Colorado, Kayaking, Paddling, rivers+ Categorized as Ambassadors, Causes, Inspiration
Sometimes in life something crappy happens. Sometimes it rains when you are going biking. Sometimes it rains when you are going running. Sometimes it even rains when you are going skiing.
Sometimes one is diagnosed with [...]
Summit on the Snake and Wyoming Whitewater Championships
Jim Stanford wrote this on Sunday, May 30th, 2010
Tagged as boating, Education, Fishing, Kayaking, Snake River+ Categorized as Causes, Wyoming
Tim Palmer, chronicler of American rivers, lays out a case for watershed conservation with education as its source. “People will fight for what they love, they love what they understand, and they understand what they [...]
continue readingOur Tax Dollars at Work
Jim Stanford wrote this on Monday, May 24th, 2010
Tagged as Montana, wildlife, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park+ Categorized as Causes
In recent weeks wildlife managers from the state of Montana and National Park Service have engaged in their spring ritual of hazing bison back into Yellowstone.
Of all the contentious public land issues in the Rocky [...]
Skiers Pitch in for Haiti Renewal
Jim Stanford wrote this on Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Tagged as caribbean, disasters, earthquakes, Music+ Categorized as Causes, Cloudveil, Inspiration
Jackson Hole, Wyo., shares at least one thing in common with Haiti — both sit on an active fault capable of producing a 7.0 earthquake.
Residents of this ski town thousands of miles from the Caribbean [...]
Text Donations Yield Flood of Aid Money for Haiti
Jim Stanford wrote this on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Tagged as caribbean, disasters, earthquakes+ Categorized as Causes, News
(The U.S. Army unloads supplies sent by helicopter from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson.)
Mobile fund-raising could be the charity wave of the future. Through Sunday, the American Red Cross had raised more than $100 [...]
Summit Up USA: Sassafras Mountain, SC
Mark Zimmer wrote this on Monday, January 11th, 2010
Tagged as hiking, Summit Up USA+ Categorized as Causes
Greetings from high point No. 10, the highest point in South Carolina: Sassafras Mountain. Sassafras Mountain has an elevation of 3,560 feet, so it is not exactly the kind of high point you stand on [...]
continue readingSummit Up USA: Mount Mitchell, N.C.
Mark Zimmer wrote this on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Tagged as hiking, mark zimmer, north carolina, Summit Up USA+ Categorized as Adventures, Causes
If you had to guess where the highest point east of the Mississippi River is, where would you put it? I always thought it would be somewhere in the Northeast. Maine or New Hampshire came [...]
continue readingThe Encounter on Mount Rogers
Mark Zimmer wrote this on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Categorized as Causes, East Coast, Humor, Summit Up USA
(Nearing the highest point in Virginia.)
I doubt that I am the only one who does it, but I never really asked to be sure. So, I am going out on a limb here, and risking [...]
Studying the Ghost of the Mountain
Kim M. Murray wrote this on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Categorized as Ambassadors, Cats, Causes, Conservation, WildernessSnow leopards are a creature that many people know little about. They’re not uncommon in zoos, but until the Planet Earth series aired a few years ago, you almost never saw them on mainstream [...]
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