Outdoors and Outabounds is dedicated to exploring the forgotten path. We prefer take take the "road less traveled" or better yet make a new one. Our motto "Erase the Compass" is the idea that sometimes we forget to "leave the trail" and explore! It all started one day while I was looking out the window of my office at Pikes Peak. I thought to myself "Why am I not on that mountain?" I have lived in it's shadow for 22 years, I've been to the top a few times. But, I have never just "wandered" on it's majestic slopes. I thought, "there have to be places on that mountain that no one has been on in hundreds of years!" Why? Because, everyone has the same goal. "Get on the trail and make it to the top!" Ok, that's fine but then what? I realized I didn't want to be controlled by that "little narrow dirt path" that was forcing me in one direction. I don't recommend getting lost (been there done that) but let's Erase the Compass and get back to exploring!

Our Mission:

Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas summed up our "mission" when he said,

"The mountains can be reached in all seasons. They offer a fighting challenge to heart, soul and mind, both in summer and winter. If throughout time the youth of the nation accept the challenge the mountains offer, they will keep alive in our people the spirit of adventure. That spirit is a measure of the vitality of both nations and men. A people who climb the ridges and sleep under the stars in high mountain meadows, who enter the forest and scale the peaks, who explore glaciers and walk ridges buried deep in snow, these people will give the country some of the indomitable spirit of the mountains."