For the Love of Outdoors
For the Love of Outdoors
Temperatures topped 70 degrees across much of Minnesota this past weekend, and some anglers are still running open water later than they ever have. It feels great right now. But forecasters are watching what could turn into the strongest El Niño on record, so ice anglers have good reason to wonder what their favorite lakes will look like by Christmas.
Park City hikers have a new way to climb out of town and into the high country. The Anchor Trees trail opened at Deer Valley this month. It’s only about a mile long, but it packs in 800 feet of elevation gain and links the local trail network to a much larger web of trails across the Wasatch. It also shows what can happen when land stays protected for decades.
Picture a red rock ridgeline, a headlamp beam bouncing over spinifex, and a summit you want to reach before the sun turns the valley into an oven. That’s a normal morning on Australia’s Larapinta Trail. This Outback walk of roughly 139 miles pays off for hikers who come ready for heat, rock and long gaps between water.