Protect Our Winters (POW), one of the nation’s leading organizations for climate action in outdoor communities, is launching a virtual “Holiday Stoke Fest” film festival free to the public. POW has been one of the most influential groups empowering trail runners as climate action leaders (see our article from 2020 with POW athletes Clare Gallagher… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Protect Our Winters
Protect Our Winters Trail Alliance On Navigating Fire Season
Trail runners have an up close and personal view of rapidly changing and increasingly devastating fire seasons across the United States. As trail runners, it is on trails we recreate and find our happy place. Many trails are drying out and becoming more susceptible to burning. On smoke-filled days, our lungs are screaming, “Please don’t… Read more »
How Protect Our Winters (POW) Engages Trail Runners in Climate Change Policy
Tayte Pollmann’s articles are supported by American Trail Running Association corporate member Nike Trail Running. You can follow Tayte’s adventures on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. If you liked this article, read even more of Tayte’s articles on our website. Protecting the trails and environment is our responsibility as a trail running community to ensure we… Read more »
Meet ATRA Trail Ambassador – Peter Downing
Please welcome the twenty fourth American Trail Running Association (ATRA) Trail Ambassador presented by CamelBak, and the twelfth and final in 2018. Runner, race director, volunteer, and trail advocate all describe Peter Downing who, at age 64, has been in the outdoor industry for nearly four decades. Nominator Ellen Miller wrote, “I have known Peter… Read more »