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Banff Mountain Film Festival is back!

Are you ready for some exciting short films loaded with amazing outdoor scenery of all the places we dream of exploring? The Banff Mountain Film Festival is again making their traveling circuit around the U.S. and Canada, with showings at local outdoor stores, colleges, etc. I can’t wait to see it!
Here’s the full schedule

Win a Rapid Response Folding Knife

This month Coast Portland has partnered up with Hiking Lady – one lucky Hiking Lady reader will win!

To enter, go to the Hiking Lady Contest page and leave a comment. That’s all you have to do to enter!Coast Rapid Response folding knife

Good luck!

Hiking Humor: A Scared Grasshopper

Grasshopper Joke

Don’t worry little grasshopper, Boots likes you!

Special thanks to the very talented and creative hiker, Geolyn “Boots” Carvin, for letting me share her hilarious cartoons. Her website, On the Trail with Boots McFarland, has many more funny cartoons about the trail adventures of the female hiker, Boots. Boots is based on Geolyn’s years of hiking and enjoying the outdoors.

How about taking a walk across the hottest desert in the world?

Helen Thayer truly knows how to test the limits! Last month we shared a book review of Helen’s journey to the magnetic north pole, made famous in her acclaimed book, Polar Dream.

Helen Thayer in the Gobi Desert

Helen Thayer in the Gobi Desert


If you want to hear less about frostbite and polar bear encounters and warm up a bit…how about picking up her next book, Walking the Gobi? That’s exactly what I did, and embarked on a page turning adventure story of Helen’s trek across the entire Gobi Desert.

Check out the just published Hiking Lady book review of this adventure story!

The Best Teacher: Nature

Mountain creek

“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”


-John Lubbock, British archaeologist and biologist, 19th century