Adventure Blog links to Outside magazine’s best places to go this year (of course you’d have to spend your vacation with people who read Outside; that’s a good thing, right?)

The Piton links to a site for finding work in the outdoor industry (I wonder how much of it is indoors — 98 percent, perhaps?)

Ryan Jordan wants shoes for a 600-mile trek through the arctic (sometimes Ryan has too much time on his hands, er, feet … Like I’m one to talk).

HikerDeals likes the Moonstone Minima 20-degree synthetic sleeping bag.

The Our Hike gals are finding that the local papers are writing stories about them (it’s always a slow news day in West Virginia until a nice mine collapse gets the newsies worked up).

Arun is exploring in the Himalayas, where bumping the shutter on your camera by accident captures scenes Ansel Adams would’ve drooled over.

Dan Mitchell tells how he gut up at 3 a.m. Saturday and drove 200 miles to be at Yosemite Valley in the morning, when the valley light smiles on shutterbugs.

That’s all for this morning — mud-soaked trails down the road are calling my name.