All In the Outdoors posts

It’s like the Tour de France, only easier, more colorful, and a lot more fun. Tour de Fat, New Belgium Brewery’s annual bike parade and festival, hit Fort Collins, CO this past weekend and made it abundantly clear that riding a bike is much preferable to driving a car.

6,000 bicycles, ridden by crazy costumed riders, stopped traffic and cleared the streets during New Belgium’s “ballyhoo of bikes” to have a good great time and raise money for bike-related non-profit organizations.
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Join The Blogging Post as we head around-the-world with our friends Drew & Erin. They’ll be sending us regular dispatches and updates from around, across, and all over the globe. This is their fourth and final post from Peru…

Finale in the Cordillera Blanca

Our adventures in South America started in the mountains of Patagonia. It is only fitting that three months later our adventures in South America culminate with a return to the mountains. After a long, windy, and fascinating road trip from the Southern Cone all the way north through Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, and finally Peru, I was quite excited for our return to big peaks, this time in the Cordillera Blanca of central Peru.

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If you’ve ever wanted to follow in the footsteps of a famous adventurer, you’re going to love the new website, Wanderlust.

This site, by GOOD Magazine, tracks some of history’s most famous, and daring, adventures on a single map for you to explore.

From Lewis and Clark to Magellan, Wanderlust documents some of the most fascinating treks of all time. They’ve even thrown in some fictional adventures, like Journey to the Center of the Earth and Around the World in 80 Days. Real or make-believe, these treks go a long way towards inspiring the wandering spirit.

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Outdoorzy is reporting on a Belgian man who crossed the dry-as-a-bone Simpson Desert in Australia with no resupply and no aid. Louis-Phillipe Loncke is the first man ever to cross the world’s longest sand dunes desert, unassisted, from north to south. The journey took him 35 days.

Loncke traveled the 800km (or so) towing a cart in which he carried all of the food and water he needed for the trip. He made it to the other side of the Simpson Desert on August 20th and while he was forced to make some changes in his plan, he managed to complete the trek all by himself.

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As the idea of backyard chicken ranching spreads throughout the U.S., mini-cow ranching is becoming popular in the UK.

Dexters, or mini cows from the mountains of Ireland, are the perfect size for backyard ranching. The size of a large German shepherd dog, a Dexter provides milk, meat, and mowing services for a family looking to grow their own food. And, unlike ordinary cattle, they don’t require vast tracts of land. An acre or two will do.

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