Welcome home: Colorado debuts outdoor industry neighborhoods
Outdoor professionals can live, work, and play in the same location—and be an economic force worth $300 million.
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Morgan Tilton
Colorado-based writer Morgan Tilton is an award-winning travel journalist and poet. In 2012, she received honorable mention for the Academy of American Poets’ Edward M. Lanna Poetry Prize. She is a bronze medalist and three-time Finalist of the past two consecutive North American Travel Journalists Association Awards Competitions for her travel writing.
Morgan covers an array of topics though most often dives into stories of adventure, travel, and outdoor industry trends. Her work is featured in Outside, Men’s Journal, SUP Magazine, Teton Gravity Research, Backpacker, and TransWorld Snowboarding among other publications.
Raised in Colorado’s stunning San Juan Mountains, she’s a life-long skier/snowboarder, hiker and explorer. Her passion for discovering new places and cultures has led her to study art and language in Italy and to summit Colorado’s highest peaks. Most recently, she dove into mountain ultra and trail running–including a 2nd overall finish at the 2016 TNF Endurance Challenge Marathon in Park City–and in 2016, made a first SUP descent of Escalante River, one of the wildest waterways in the Lower 48, with four friends.
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Gear trend: Rolling coolers stay premium
Many of the leading cooler brands have added wheels to larger sizes, and they each say it's "all about convenience" and "ease of use."
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Q & A with the sock man
Kelly Nester, CEO of Nester Hosiery, grew up surrounded by socks, but the launch of Farm to Feet five years ago changed everything.
5 questions for Jennifer Pharr Davis
The Farm to Feet Global Ambassador, author, and endurance hiker dishes on designing her own sock, her best endurance tip, and her next big project.
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Meet the Ironman: Cliff Cox
This 63-year old Ironman is proud of the Farm to Feet socks he helps make every day.
New report: Benchmarking the outdoor industry’s sustainability efforts
Outdoor Industry Association released the first-ever sustainability report.
American Made: Stories from the Farm to Feet Supply Trail
This three-part film series features a tri-athlete, a poet, and two anglers who work across Farm to Feet's supply chain.
Farm to Feet celebrates five years
With devoted retail support, the brand quadruples growth in just five years.
#BlackGirlMagic: Marketing to millennial women of color
African-American women will steer black spending power to $1.5 trillion by 2021. Here are six ways that the outdoor industry can invite more millennial women of color into outdoor adventure.
Yeti Cycles is building an outdoor lifestyle hub
Yeti Cycles plans to develop a 40-acre campus with a factory, showroom, protected open space, and like-minded businesses in Golden, Colorado.