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Horsepacking Shoot in Wyoming’s Wind River Range

September 16, 2019 by HagePhoto

What’s better than backpacking across Wyoming’s Wind River Range? How about packing across it with you and all your gear on horseback. Whether you’re a life-long horse person or equine novice, an extended expedition with your steed is a daunting proposition. The National Outdoor Leadership School, based in Lander, WY, offers field programs that continue […]

Categories: Active Lifestyle • Tags: Adventure, Commercial, Mountain, Photography

Hiking Utah’s Canyon Country

July 19, 2018 by HagePhoto

Earlier this summer we had the good fortune to produce some hiking and backpacking work in Utah’s canyon country. From the outskirts of Zion, to the soaring cliffs of Cedar Breaks and into the canyons of Bryce and Grand Staircase, we covered a lot of ground. We were thrilled that it looked like a couple […]

Categories: Active Lifestyle • Tags: Adventure, Backpacking, Camping, National Parks, Utah

Alaska Fat Bike Adventures

April 23, 2018 by HagePhoto

If the ever increasing number of people out on our local trails riding fat tire snow bikes instead of nordic skiing is any indication, then it’s safe to say they are here to stay. With massive (4”-5”) wide tires running unbelievably low pressures, these bikes have extended the riding season around Alaska throughout the eight-month […]

Categories: Alaska • Tags: Adventure, Alaska, Mountain Bike, Winter

A SUP Adventure on Alaska’s Kenai River

April 17, 2018 by HagePhoto

There’s really only two reasons anyone should know about the Kenai River: either you live in Alaska or your a fisherman, for which it is a ‘bucket-list’ river. Otherwise the measly 80-mile long river flowing across the Kenai Peninsula into Cook Inlet is easy to overlook in a land with thousands of miles of more […]

Categories: Alaska • Tags: Adventure, Alaska, Rivers, SUP

The Wonderland Connection

June 24, 2017 by HagePhoto

My first visit to Joshua Tree National Park 15 years ago nearly ended in that kind of tragedy. A buddy and I were down from Anchorage, Alaska to climb granite splitters in the desert sun. After a week of constant climbing, we needed to give our destroyed hands a break. A day hike through the […]

Categories: Adventure • Tags: Adventure, Backpacking, California, Climbing, National Parks

Across Alaska’s Talkeetna Mountains for Outdoor Research

January 8, 2017 by HagePhoto

Last fall we put together a crew of stoked individuals for challenging traverse in Alaska’s Talkeetna Mountains. We’ve done the classic Bomber Traverse a few times and have been adding an experimental beginning to the route each time. Experimental as in ‘this may go or it may not’. The five-day route connects a unique series […]

Categories: Adventure • Tags: Adventure, Alaska, Backpacking, Mountain

Gear We Use: goTenna Backcountry Network

September 29, 2016 by HagePhoto

Across the valley, two brightly colored mountain bikers sit poised on a ridgeline above a twisting section of singletrack. Thanks to the slender rectangle of tech clipped to my photo pack, they are mine to control. We’re on a magazine shoot in the Lyell Range on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island and […]

Categories: Equipment • Tags: Adventure, Equipment, Mountain Bike, New Zealand

GoalZero Keeping us Solar Powered

May 28, 2016 by HagePhoto

For the past few years, we’ve enjoyed the support of Utah-based GoalZero to keep our gear powered in the field. What began as a way to bring power to impoverished areas of the Congo, GoalZero is now the leader in portable solar panels and batteries. It’s fortunate that we all get to benefit from this […]

Categories: Equipment • Tags: Adventure, Alaska, Backpacking, Mountain, Solar Power, Sponsors

Favorite Moments of 2015

December 31, 2015 by HagePhoto

We’re truly fortunate to live this life. Sure, it’s a lot of work to run your own production business. But when we look back at what we’ve accomplished last year and where we’ve been, it’s hard to hold a grudge against all those 16 hour days and endless stream of airports. It was tough to […]

Categories: HageLife • Tags: Adventure, Alaska, Backpacking, Climbing, India, Japan, Mountain, Mountain Bike, Sierra Nevada, skiing, Southwest, Travel, Utah, Winter

Packrafting Adventure in Canyonlands

October 24, 2015 by HagePhoto

The waterfalls weren’t there an hour ago. Earlier this morning we had awaken from our bivouac under the towering sandstone walls of The Maze, a remote labyrinth of deep canyons in Utah’s Canyonlands National Park. We’d noticed a drop in the temperature and the thick cloud cover building overhead. Breakfast was quick; it was time […]

Categories: Adventure • Tags: Adventure, Backpacking, National Parks, Utah