WATCH: Desert River

Desert River from Nicholas Waggoner on Vimeo.

Beautiful video. 

via The Adventure Blog

WATCH: Ueli Steck - The Swiss Machine

Wow. This guy is incredible! Time to check out the full length film!

http://www.uelisteck.ch/en.html

LOOK: Logging Photos from Oconto County, Wisconsin (1823-1920)

"Temporary cabins were constructed right after the harvest season in fall, by the woodsmen, in the area to be worked. These log buildings housed the loggers and other camp residents for that particular winter. These were typical of the late 1800's from the Wheeler area, which is now known as Lakewood, in the northwestern part of the county. Often they were dismantled and rebuilt the next fall in a new location."

Joe Ziereis and son George 

6 Men On Logs.
"The relative size of these northern Wisconsin trees can be understood when compared to the size of the full grown men standing on them. After cutting, came the trimming off of all the branches, which were then cut to use and sell as firewood."

See more here.

WATCH: The Annual Fjällräven Classic

ome join Fjällräven Classic – a trek in the Lapland mountains of Sweden and a folk festival for one and all - young and old, people who like to speed through life as well as those who like to stroll, experienced mountain foxes and curious beginners. With the right preparations, you and a group of people who share your goal will conquer a 110-kilometre challenge.

We know you will enjoy reaching out to the wilderness, but in the best moments the wilderness will be reaching out to you. When you least expect it. And that is what makes your experience unique.

Welcome to a wonderful opportunity to interact with Sweden's most breathtaking wilderness and gain a memory for life.

via Fjällräven.com

"We were thrilled to have Outside TV overseas for the Fjällräven Classic this year, capturing the event and its surroundings. Get a sneak peak of the feature in photos here and stay tuned for Outside TV´s take on the long-distance trek."

via Fjällräven US

WATCH: Mi Chacra

Winner of the Grand Prize at the 2010 Banff Mountain Festival Film Competition.

"Heavy mist hangs over the towering Peruvian mountains as a young subsistence farmer, Feliciano, his wife Locrecia, and their small son Royer till their fertile land. Farming the fields above the Sacred Valley in southern Peru is all the indigenous people of Mullacas know - that and the taste of the local fermented corn beverage, chicha. Though theirs appears at first glance to be a peaceful life, isolation and lack of schooling have given rise to feelings of social inequality and an increase in alcoholism. So while he values the beauty of their surroundings, Feliciano wants his son, as his father wanted him, to move to the city so he can get an education and have a better life. Marking director Jason Burlage's feature debut, this moving documentary chronicles the young family's struggles through the planting season and Feliciano's more lucrative work as a porter along the Incan trails to Machu Picchu..."

IMDB

LOOK/READ: Alaska 1968

Opening day. June 7, 1968 - Sneed Adams & Dave Cassell strike out for Alaska.
C assell had returned from a year in Viet Nam.
Adams had returned from 16 months in India.
It was time to do other things and see other places. 

Ektachrome color slides have started to loose their color.
Looking north up the spine of the Canadian Rockies.
The road to Jasper goes up this valley. The scenery along
this highway is some of the finest in the world. 

One of the advantages of camping at elevation 6,700 ft. in July. Snow that is.
Not non English speaking French teenagers.

At camp in Eagle, Alaska. Dave reads from the book of Robert Service poems.

The Cremation of San McGee

There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tails
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was the night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.

Time has taken its toll on this slide of Dave crossing the same railroad bridge.

We loaded the Caribou onto the top of the scout and then put the canoe on top of the caribou. It looked funny but it worked. So we drove to Chitna looking like this. Must have been 300 miles

See more from this amazing journey here.

WATCH: Take Pride in America

Cold Splinters just posted this video, entitled 'Take Pride in America', from 1987 which aimed to reduce the American public's destruction (littering, vandalism etc) of their own country. Enjoy!

WATCH: Our Vanishing Wilderness (1970)

“40 years ago, a small crew of filmmakers set out to document some of the more pressing issues involving wildlife in America. They made eight half-hour films around the country–it ended up being the first environmental tv series in the US. Shot in 1969, the issues weren’t new, but hadn’t been handled much yet on television–the medium had yet to embrace the environmental movement”

Watch it here.

via mpdrolet

WATCH: Hjørundfjord and The Sunnmøre Alps

VISIT: Lofoten, Norway

Lofoten is an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. Though lying within the Arctic Circle, the archipelago experiences one of the world's largest elevated temperature anomalies relative to its high latitude.

Film: Stories for Life: Lofoten Nasjonal Turistveg

Visit the official travel guide to Norway

LOOK: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska 2006

"Established in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve is a United StatesNational Park in southwestern Alaska. The park includes many streams and lakes vital to the Bristol Bay salmon fishery. The park allows a wide variety of recreational activities year-round.

Lake Clark has been called "the essence of Alaska", for it concentrates in a relatively small area of theAlaska Peninsula, Southwest of Anchorage, a variety of features not found together in any of the other Alaska Parks: the junction of three mountain ranges, (the Alaska Range from the North, the Aleutian Range from the South, and the park's own rugged Chigmit Mountains), two active volcanoes (Iliamnaand Redoubt), a coastline with rainforests on the East (similar to South East Alaska), a plateau with tundra on the West (similar to Arctic Alaska), and turquoise lakes.

No roads lead to the park and it can only be reached by small aircraft, floatplanes being the best method. The park, one of the least visited in the National Park System, averages just over 5,000 visitors per year."

The park is also known as the former home of the legendary Dick Proenneke. Read more about the park and Dick's cabin over on NPS.

See all 187 photos here.

WATCH: The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1977-78)

"While I know that this show was no emmy-winning fare, it brings backs memories of my youth and gaining an appreciation for nature and all animals.

Somewhere in all of us, lies that Walden-esque desire to abandon the trappings of modern life and live in the wilderness among nature. While this was merely a television program, and undoubtedly fraught with errors and impossibilities (i.e. raising an orphan cub to be your "buddy"), it allowed for soles young and old to live out that Western fantasy, albeit vicarisely. I miss those days curled up with a pillow on my Grandma's floor and imersing myself in Grizzly Adam's world."

via IMDB

Watch the rest here.

LOOK: Alaska in the 1950s & 60s

See more here.

LOOK: Manning Park, British Columbia, 1982

See more here.

LOOK: Around the Globe in 1974

"In june 1974 my father took me on a trip around the globe. Bangkok, Sydney, Camberra, Fiji, San Franciso and New York were cities we visited."

 See the entire trip here. 

LOOK: Extreme Bivouacking

WATCH: So Sweaty Mini Docs

Can't wait to see these!

I’m starting to plan the first of (hopefully) many short documentaries, focusing on my home state of Michigan and the Great Lakes.  I’m really excited about this and other projects on the horizon for So Sweaty.  Basically just take awesome trips/adventures with buds with a little HD point and shoot.  Super simple.  I love you all.

WATCH: DO IT WITH JOY (1979)

Do It With Joy (1976) from adam humphreys on Vimeo.



DO IT WITH JOY (1979)
Genre: Documentary film, 27 min 00 sec, Colour
Produced by: Nicholas Kendall
Directed by: Nicholas Kendall
Distributed by The National Film Board of Canada
Synopsis:
British Columbia has a reforestation program to restock vast tracts of land stripped by logging companies. DO IT WITH JOY is about a unique community: a group of people from widely varying backgrounds who come together each spring to plant trees in the vast logged areas of northern British Columbia.
For all of them, tree planting is a source of income, but more importantly it is a chance to share in the building of a self-sufficient community for the few months of the planting season.

via the ever reliable Cold Splinters and Orca Productions

LOOK: FOREST FALL COLOUR PHOTO HUNT IN NORWAY

I just discovered these beautiful photos and had to share them. I was hoping to do a similar journey this year, but it fell through and I didn't really have the money anyway. Maybe next year...

You can see more here.

VISIT: Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve

Wooden Wand - The Mountain

Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve is a United States National Park in southeastern Alaska. It was established in 1980 by theAlaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. The park area is included in an International Biosphere Reserve and is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is the largest national park in the United States by area, covering an area of 20,587 mi² (53,321 km²), or over 13 million acres(53,000 km²). In fact, it is larger than nine U.S. States, and its size is comparable to the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

Photo via Secondary Reality

Photo via Marie-Lauren Even

Photo via  robert_vst