Animas Outdoors Blog

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Get Zen: The Power Of Neutral Thinking - pretty awesome way to look at things, although I like to add a bit more excitement in my day to ensure proper stoke levels are reached. 

Podcast: Selling cars is one wild ride. This American Life does a kickass job of showing us what it means to be a car salesman by spending a month at one specific lot.

Socks: If you're an active person crushing on the regular you need good socks and if you don't have these Darn Tough socks you're doing it wrong. 

A rad video filmed right here where we play daily in the San Juan Mountains:

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Beautiful surreal Instagram artist - Luisa Azevedo. I love her stuff!

Looking for affordable activity worthy earphones? These.

Meditating Daily for 20minutes will bring you some amazing results in your life. I've been doing it, it's hard but I do it and this 10 step guide is basically all you need. I have a bad back so I sit against a stiff pillow and often use a white noise app to drown out city noise in our little apartment. 

Listen Up - this is the single best podcast episode I've listened to in years. There's an underground economy going on all around you that you've never heard of. Take 30 minutes out of your decades of living to understand your world a little better. You will not be disappointed. 

Get pumped video!

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Looking for an alternative energy drink? Matcha will keep you jacked and focused without any noticeable comedown. It's green tea, ground up to a powder you mix with water. The Japanese have used this stuff since forever ago. Look into it. 

Recipe: I'm a spaghetti fanatic and this Bolognese Recipe crushes in its simplicity and downright tastiness. The ingredient list is short so get the good stuff like imported canned plum tomatoes and fresh local veggies. Here's the kicker - no garlic! Mind blown.

Great New Music: Michael Kiwanuka's Cold Little Heart. Soooo good!

We Are At Home Outdoors [short beautiful video]

At Home Outdoors from Sebastian Linda on Vimeo.

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Pick out the best wood for kindling for your camping fire pit!

One important note not mentioned: Place your larger kindling logs around the starter fire to warm them up, this will help a ton. You can see two of them above in step 4 on the left side of the fire. If you're working with wet logs do the same thing once your fire is raging to help dry them out.

If you don't have any trash paper try to find some moss or what a lot of people call Old Man's Beard. If you happen to be in the desert look for downed Juniper wood, its outer shell is sorta like a coconut husk and burns wonderfully. 

I can't reiterate enough, check your local state burn laws and put out your fire with dirt and water. The West is going through an unprecedented wildfire season, so be smart!

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Have a dog? This seat cover is perfect for those dirty muddy k9 friends of ours. It'll help keep your seats & floorboards clean, like an awesome protective doggy hammock.

Launched in 1977 The Voyager Expedition has traveled further than any other space craft and could outlive our planet, containing a golden disc with the only historical record for other alien species to find out about us. This is an awesome podcast about it. It's a sort of cultural Noah's Ark of Earth. 

Jim Carrey is best known for Ace Ventura where he plays a wacky detective but in the last decade, he's refocussed his talent to become one badass painter. And he's a nihilist that occasionally gives pretty awkward and amazing interviews. 

Jim Carrey: I Needed Color from JC on Vimeo.

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Super Tasty One Pot Camping Meals. Great site for some cooking inspiration when on the road. 

Life Hack: practicing the stoical mindset & strategies has made a big difference in my day to day happiness and is something everyone should at least look into. It's a philosophy of life that will help you appreciate everything you have and don't have. This podcast by Kevin Rose is a great introduction to it.  

A true, wonderful short story of adventure - “Are you sure we can push this out of an airplane?” I asked. “We’ll just have to see what our pilot says,” Kennan replied.

Sweet sweet psychedelicness...