If you live in the United States (and maybe even if you don’t), you’ve heard of Smokey Bear, but how about Spunky Squirrel? Woody the Log? Howdy the Good Outdoors Manners Raccoon? The great outdoors doesn’t need a marketing gimmick—and yet, these mascots exist (or once existed), and we’re not mad about it. Over the [...]
Learn how Chris Cooper parlayed an ugly encounter from three years ago into hosting the TV show, Extraordinary Birder, about his passion.
If you’ve spent any time scrolling on the internet, you may have come across the “Subarus are the cars of lesbians” trope. Here is the story of how Subaru became the car of the queer community. A Failed 90s Marketing Campaign Subaru made a name for itself by making all of its models with all-wheel [...]
Everest has been trending heavily in the news this week, thanks to records of garbage left behind, an impossible rescue, and a steadily increasing death toll. Mount Everest is the highest peak in the Himalaya mountain range and is located between Nepal and Tibet. A video went viral online recording the unbelievable amount of garbage [...]
On May 28, 1993, the action-adventure flick Cliffhanger hit theaters. Here are 30 facts for the film’s 30th anniversary.
It’s been 90 years since the very first recorded Loch Ness Monster sighting took the world by storm. Stories about a mysterious creature living in a freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands have been around since 500 A.D. However, the legend of Loch Ness was not brought to the world’s attention until May 1933, when [...]
The Great Outdoors is a cult comedy classic from the 1980s about a peaceful weekend of fishing and outdoors family time at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin that gets a bit…chaotic. In the typical style of the time, a vacation goes all kinds of wrong for the unsuspecting main characters and turns into a comedy spectacle [...]
Bear Grylls is internationally known for his books, Netflix specials and numerous television shows – but did you know what his very first time on TV was via a commercial? After becoming one of the youngest humans ever to climb Mount Everest at age 23, Bear Grylls was recruited to take part in the “Sure [...]
When Outdoors.com last spoke with Jill Ashlock and Amber Asay, the dynamic duo or terrible twosome—depending on who you ask—had not yet seen one episode of their Netflix reality competition show Outlast, a thrilling series about lone wolf survivalists dropped into the Alaskan frontier. Jill, a private detective from Kentucky, and Amber, a yoga instructor [...]
Night 9 on Tika gets off to a somber start. Sarah is gone, following Carolyn’s decision to join forces with the tribe’s new member, Josh, at tribal council. Yam Yam is left scrambling—and confused. “I’m happy that I survived the moment, but I’m not happy that I didn’t know how it was going to go,” [...]
