THE PATHLOOM BLOG

Photos from the scene, and links for how our community can help Cold Cows, Texas Hill Country: Harper, TX - Photo Credit: Bryan Donoghue 85 degrees and sunny in Austin, Texas yesterday - a far cry from the subzero temperatures terrorizing the city just one week earlier. The ice may have melted, but the problems remain. The infrastructure issues made painfully obvious by the worst storm to hit the area in 72 years have kept many without power and water even a week after the st

Badlands National Park, SD - Photo Credit: Scott Carnahan Up before the sunrise, 307 miles of Dakota between me and the next stretch of badlands. Overnight frost had formed inside my Jeep, signifying the decision to wrap camp the night before was paying off. Early October in the plains - for the first time in years I used the ice scraper on the windshield, spitting snow dancing salsa in the dim light of the morning. As in Montana and now North Dakota, old man winter pushes me

Some hot tips to know before hitting the open road... that I learned the hard way I-10, Chihuahuan Desert, West Texas - Photo Credit: Bryan Donoghue As a Native Nevadan, I have grown up taking countless road trips to visit family, go camping, or explore new places. With about 20 years of experience spent in a car while travelling long distances, I’d love to share my essentials to have on hand for any road trip - short or long! First Aid Kit While you’re on a road trip, there

The Badlands, ND - Photo Credit: Scott Carnahan Golden sunset to the west, icy orange fingers of a snow storm to the north, extending southward in a spectacle of color. Racing against the setting sun, I was eastbound on I-94 questioning whether this was Montana or North Dakota. For miles the badlands had flirted in between farms and prairies, and I was eager to get to a campsite - there was no way of knowing what the storm had to offer. Topping a rise I saw it, glimmering in

A Look into an Eighteen Year Old’s Travels, Odd Jobs, and Outdoorsmanship Over the Course of a Year Fighting Fires: Alturas, California - Photo Credit: Riley Fotis After high school, the goal for many people is to get into college or to start looking for potential careers. Practicality comes first, and one’s desire to travel, to explore, to answer the call of the wild often gets pushed to the side. This wasn’t the case for my friend, Riley, whose gap year before starting at t

Lessons Learned on the Bonneville Salt Flats Volcano Peak, UT - Photo Credit: Scott Carnahan Off Interstate 80 on the western edge of Utah lay the Bonneville Salt Flats, a vast swath of bright white land lined by towers and islands of brown rock. The layers of time all around the flats vary in shades of tan and brown, telling the story of the Great Basin. A drama epochs, ages, and eras in the making; that shaped the area centered in Nevada and reaching into the neighboring st

One month down, 11 more to go! Check out all the important changes coming to an outdoors near you. Rocky Mountain National Park, CO - Photo Credit: Scott Carnahan Recent news updates going on in the world of the Outdoors that could impact your future travel plans. Free Admissions Dates Offered at All National Parks All National Parks will be waiving their entrance fees on five days throughout the year. This has been a recent addition via Secretary Orders 3386 and 3387. The fr

Smoke plume over Susanville, CA - Photo Credit: Scott Carnahan Northern California, August 2020. Wildfire smoke was a daily part of life by now, and for 300 miles in every direction there was no escaping it. What a time to go camping. Yet it wasn't just camping, I'd converted my Jeep into a camper and set out on an open ended quest. There was no choice but to endure the smoke as I hightailed it from Lake Tahoe up U.S. 395, past blackened land and into the small hamlet of Susa