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What is El Niño and its Forecast for Southwestern Rivers this year?

What is El Niño and its 2024 Forecast for Southwestern Rivers

A freaky weather phenomenon occurs every few years, known as El Niño, and fishers were the first to notice it (vox.com). Beginning around Christmas, the sea surface warms up like the vacation of your dreams. Do not open up a new tab and Google search flights to Oaxaca just yet. [...]

How to Shop to the Best Holiday Deals on Whitewater Adventures for 2023

How to Shop the Best Holiday Deals on Whitewater Adventures Click here if you’d like to skip to a section: Top Selling Trips How to Save the Most Gift Certificates How to Pick the Right Multi-Day Trip Are you ready for an impromptu inundation of Black Friday river puns, in [...]

14 Outdoor Gift Ideas for Nature Lovers

14 Outdoor Gift Ideas for Nature Lovers

14 Outdoor Gift Ideas for Nature Lovers Choosing gifts can be challenging, especially for those who seem hard to please. Our common love for nature, however, unites us all. Arborists risk it all for their tree-climbing reverence, while even nature skeptics rely on trees for oxygen. Whether on the extremes [...]

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The Best Places to Stargaze in Fall in the Southwest

Autumn is an eclectic time of year for stargazing in Utah and southwest Colorado. The best places to stargaze in fall get darker earlier and the night temperatures are still mild compared to winter. As Earth turns away from the center of our galaxy during the autumnal eclipse, we arrive [...]

The Best Things to do in Moab this Fall for 2023

The Best Things to do in Moab this Fall for 2023

Fall is the best time to be in Moab, Utah. Locals change up their afternoon siesta and DIY ice-fan routine for more adventurous shenanigans. The air and water beckon with seventy to eighty degree temperatures. Rainfall averaging sixty-seven inches adds earthy-smells. Lightning strikes through contrasting cerulean and orange landscapes. Furthermore, [...]

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Everything You Wanted to Know about the Aspen Tree

So, you’re looking for some cold hard facts about the aspen tree. Well, you’ve come to the right shady corner of the internet friend. That’s a pun on trees, in case you’ve got the wrong idea about that quality double entendre.  Aspens, the quaking aspens of this particular discussion (genus [...]