Specializing in teaching land navigation skills to all ranges of scouts from Cub Scouts to Venturing. Activities include geocaching, orienteering, search and rescue (with emphasis on the search). Also, basic map and compass skills and mapmaking. Members of this group may be alerted to activities anywhere in the United States, but will be limited to scout-based and orienteering club activities.

Mission: To connect people to nature using the bicycle as the means. Its easy to forget or neglect all that nature out there. Boulder Backcountry Bikes aims to help people remember how nice it can be to sit and listen to the sound of a creek, the songs of birds, or high country stars by providing opportunities for people to cross the urban borders into the natural heritage for which Colorado is renowned. BBB will provide a calendar of camping trips scheduled by local individuals and organization …

This is a place to meet other locals interested in Urban Homesteading and simple living skills like food preservation, caring for livestock, wilderness survival, alternative energy, edible landscaping, permaculture, container gardening... The group is apolitical (no politics unless there is an issue-based discussion that affects urban homesteading, such as laws regulating the keeping of animals), non-denominational (we welcome all religions, including the non-religious), and all-inclusive (fro …

What this group is about [Note: This is not specifically a paleo diet group! But, yes, that is one topic which may come up from time to time. Please read the description below.] Interested in the ways of hunter-gatherers? Think you'd like to feel more connected to the earth, at one with the rest of the natural world? Feel the costs of civilization may outweigh the benefits? Do you suspect that, for the sake of life on earth and human well being, the future for humanity should and in fact might s …

Come join us as we explore Colorado (and Beyond)  with others who enjoy Backpacking and Camping. Our backpacking trips will involve hiking a mile or much more from a trailhead to locations in the Colorado wilderness. These trips will require backpacks, tents, sleeping bags and other gear and food that you will be carrying on your back needed to keep you fed, warm and dry. We  practice Leave No Trace principles to leave the wilderness as pristine (or better) than we found it. Please be prepared w …