Dirt Sweat and Gears 2008 - Le Mans start

2 comments May 6th, 2008

Dirt Sweat and Gears Pit Video

Outdoorzy is headed down to Fayetteville Tennessee today to hang out at Dirt Sweat and Gears. We’re a sponsor at the race and will be giving away swag, camping out for a few nights, listening to bands, watching the race, and rubbing elbows with the mtb community. It’s one of the premier mountain bike races in the southeastern US.

Here’s a video from last years pit row…

Add comment May 2nd, 2008

Stroll in the Mountains

I saw this video via The Adventure Blog.

It’s just an easy stroll in the mountains of Spain. The El Camino del Ray or “The King’s Pathway”…

2 comments May 1st, 2008

Parkour Makes Me Nervous

If you’re not familiar with Parkour, it’s the art of acrobatic street jumping/climbing/life-risking. Most of the time it’s just jumping around, flipping, and rolling. But sometimes the people performing the stunts take on a little more risk than I like to see. Check this guy out… My palms are still sweaty.

1 comment April 18th, 2008

Trout Bum 1: Mongolia - River Wolf

The guys from AEG, who brought you Trout Bum Diaries: Patagonia and Trout Bum Diaries II: Kiwi Camo, are back. For two months the guys travel to five rivers that potentially no other fisherman has floated down in search of a mysterious fish. Their travels in this fly fishing adventure movie take them into inner Mongolia by horse, camel, Russian military vans, and hiking boot in search of the taimen, also known to Mongolians as River Wolf.

Taimen is the largest fish species in the salmon family. In the natural environment, without pressure, taimen can grow in excess of five feet in length and weight as much as 75 pounds. The have eyes that are centered more towards the front of the head which allows them to see prey below and above the water. This allows them to find and eat other fish species as well as mice, prairie dogs, and small water fowl and with rows and rows of teeth, they have no problem taking on that task.

At first they guys have a hard time locating taimen. What does taimen water look like? Where do they hold up in the river? These are the questions the guys have to answer during their 14 to 20 km river floats. In the beginning, the crew is catching lenok, which is the Mongolian equivalent to trout. The crew tried a multitude of flies: tungsten head streamers, top water streamers, giant grasshoppers, and so on, but all they could catch was lenok. It wasn’t until one guy had on a lenok and after releasing the fish back to the river, a giant taimen come out of nowhere and ate the fish. That is when the guys realize that they were not fishing flies that were big enough.

The movie has some spectacular views of the mountains and rivers of Mongolia as well as plenty fly fishing footage. The guys spend their nights sleeping in tents or on the ground, drinking beer, tying flies, and fly fishing for the mysterious River Wolf and once again the deliver a great fly fishing adventure movie. I can’t wait until the next movie.

1 comment April 11th, 2008

Totally Rad Snowboarding

Saw this on The Adventure Blog, who saw this on Wend, who saw this on YouTube… think I’ve got everybody covered…

Nuts!

Add comment April 4th, 2008

Trout Bum Diaries II: New Zealand: Kiwi Camo

The guys from AEG media are back and this time they travel to the South Island of New Zealand for a four month expedition to fish for monster brown trout in the backcountry. The movie is 75 minutes in length and will have you hooked after “God Save The Queen”. If you enjoyed the action, scenery, and story of Trout Bum Diaries I: Patagonia, then this movie is for you too. Simply put, the quality of the footage is stunning. The only draw back to the movie is the length of the movie. I was spoiled by the two plus hour movie from TBD 1.

The film shows the trial and tribulations of fishing in a different country and hooking large trout. The guys encounter sheep-induced traffic jams, kayak along the coast, and survive an all-pasta diet-in search of big rainbows and browns, with all the problems, weather, and challenges any angler encounters. If you like dry fly fishing for large trout, you’re going to be jealous with what you see onscreen.

Add comment March 11th, 2008

A Map For Saturday

A couple of weekends ago, my fiancé and I were watching MTV. They had a “True Life” marathon on and I will admit; I am a fan of the 60 minute documentary. When we turned on the TV we had about 10 minutes left of the current show and the Tivo guide showed us the next program, “A Map For Saturday”. Thinking it might be a True Life that involves the outdoors, I was ready to watch it.

As the show starts, the narrator goes into his story and about the show. The guy, Brook Silva-Braga, leaves a nice job with a TV network to travel the world with clothes in his backpacks and several pounds of video equipment. He sets out to see the world for a year by himself and along the way he meets many new people or as one guy puts it, “friends for a day”.

“It makes me laugh when people say I could never do what you’re doing. All our friends gave us six weeks and then we’d be home and it now been 14 months.”
Karen: 21, England

“In fifty or sixth years I’m dead. I want to say, ‘I had a good life’.”
Jens: 27 Germany

“I’d like to travel 364 days and go back for Christmas.”
Bill: 27 Northern Ireland

The people he meets along the way are also solo travelers, some are just starting out, others are in the middle of their adventure, and some are heading home. The solo travelers he meets and travels with from one location to another help tell the story of why and how they are traveling as well as share some personal accounts of their own travels.
At times lonely and difficult; more often joyous, and always adventurous. In the end, Brook travels for 12 month, and travels by plane, train, automobile and by foot to 26 countries on four continents.

1 comment March 10th, 2008

Roller Coaster MTB Trail

If you love mountain biking, have a few extra minutes, and can make it through this video without barfing, then this might make your day.

Can anyone tell me where this is? Looks like the Pacific Northwest… Vancouver maybe? I hear they have some serious trails.

3 comments February 11th, 2008

Fish Porn

For years now, fly fisherman have been making “How To” & other technical type movies on casting, fly tying, fly fishing, trout streams, etc, and they are all usually pretty tame. The instructor/narrator is usually standing in field casting, sitting a tying table, or riding a long in a drift boat while a fishing guide floats them down a river. The basic point here is that there is a lot of comfort.

But what do you get when you have four young fly fishermen that have nothing better to do than fish? This is what they do. They form Angling Exploration Group (AEG) and travel to Patagonia (Argentina and Southern Chile) for five months; surviving off of beer and pasta, sleeping in dirt, and fishing their asses off. They filmed the entire adventure, added some music, and now have created FISH PORN!!

Trout Bum Diaries: Volume 1 Patagonia is pure fishing porn and has set the bar on what all outdoor movies should be like and is a must see for everyone; whether or not you are a fly fisherman, you will enjoy this movie for the story, scenery, mishaps, and BIG FISH!

4 comments January 26th, 2008