For Outdoor recreation

Trip Reports:

• Superstition Wilderness 11/19/22-11/22/22

  • GPX for Superstition Wilderness 11/19/22-11/22/22

 

Guides:

• Bandera Trail Race Guide

• Trailey Trail Routes

• Digital Davis Mountains Guide

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Education and Trip Planning:

• Introduction to Camping PPT

• Introduction to Backpacking PPT

• Camping Checklist

• Backpacking Checklist

• Fill-able Backpacking Checklist

• Backpacking Webinar PPT's

  • Trip Planning​

  • All Things Gear

  • Camp Kitchen

  • Packing Your Backpack & Hygiene

 

Useful Websites: 

• Leave No Trace

• Free Campsites (dot) Net

• Texas Parks and Wildlife

• National Park Service

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Affordable and/or used Gear:

• Gear Trade

• REI Used Gear

• Worn Wear by Patagonia

• Outdoors Geek (They also let you rent gear!)

• North Face Renewed

• Ebay​

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Good Reads (Mostly focusing on women in the outdoors):

• "Almost Somewhere" by Suzanne Roberts

• "A Beautiful Work in Progress" by Mirna Valerio

• "Climbing Free" by Lynn Hill

• "When Nobody was Watching" by Carli Lloyd

• "Adventures in the Rocky Mountains" by Isabella Bird

• "Tents in the Clouds" by Monica Jackson, Elizabeth Stark

• "Lands of Lost Borders" by Kate Harris

• "Ruthless River" by Holly Conklin FitzGerald

• "Four Corners" by Kira Salak

• "Wild by Nature" by Sarah Marquis

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For Anti-Racism and Equity in the Outoors

 

Books:

• "Black Women in Green" by Gloria Brown, Donna Sinclair

• "The Rise of the American Conservation Movement" by Dorceta Taylor

• "Hour of Land" by Terry Tempest Williams

• "Erosion" by Terry Tempest Williams

• "Racing to Justice" by John Powell

• "Dispossessing the Wilderness" by Mark David Spence

• "Hood Feminism" by Mikki Kendall

• "Braiding Sweet Grass" by Robin Wall Kemmerer

• "As Long as the Grass Grows" by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

• "Trace" by Lauret Savoy

• "The Body is Not an Apology" by Sonia Renee Taylor

• "Legacy on the Land" by Audrey Peterman and Frank Peterman

• "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince

• "Pure Land: A True Story of Three Lives, Three Cultures, and the Search for Heaven on Earth" by Annette McGivney

• "Black Faces, White Spaces" by Carolyn Finney

• "Yellow Dirt" by Judy Pasternak

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Action Items:

• NRPA: Keeping it REAL (Racial Equity And Leadership) in Parks & Recreation (create a free account and "purchase" the free session)

• City of Austin Equity Action Team

• Tell your Congress member about these two bills that will help provide equitable access to the outdoors:

  • Outdoors for All Act (S.1458/H.R.4512) to create open spaces in local communities that need them most, who have historically not had access. 

  • Transit to Trails Act (S. 3333/H.R. 4273) to connect transit hubs to trail heads to increase access to public lands for those without reliable transportation and reduce congestion at trail heads. 

• If you are a women or minority, take our survey, so we can learn what your needs and wants are.

• Donate to or get involved with any of the organizations below.

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Organizations to Support:

• Go Austin/Vamos Austin (Austin)

• The Brown Ascenders (Austin)

• Black Outside (San Antonio)

• Camber Outdoors (Everywhere)

• Melanin Base Camp (Everywhere)

• Greening Youth Foundation (Atlanta)

• Outdoor Afro (Everywhere)

• Soul Trak Outdoors (Washington DC)

• GirlTrek (Everywhere)

• Inclusive Woods & Us (New York)

• The Outdoor Journal Tour (Everywhere)

 

Articles to Read:​

• Where is Everyone? Addressing a Glaring Disparity in the Outdoors

• Five ways to make outdoors more inclusive

• Running and Race

• The Unbearable Whiteness of Hiking and How to Solve It

• How to Be an Ally to the Black Running Community

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