Meet Spencer Staley, founder of Portland-based furniture workshop and design studio.
Danish inspiration, Portland quality. Spencer Staley has no formal training in designing or building furniture. He figured it out with a distinctly Portland-style passion.
Explore Maple Grove Hot Springs, an off-grid retreat center on the Bear River of southern Idaho, with this fall’s Creative WYLD - a unique field trip organized by our friends at WYLDER and focused on creativity and entrepreneurship.
For over a year, we planned, schemed, and curated an incredible lineup of speakers, chefs, artists, and entrepreneurs to take part in our 2nd annual Wylder Field Trip. For 3 days and 4 nights, we gathered to learn about creativity and entrepreneurship in a riverfront setting at a hot spring retreat center in southern Idaho.
Together with Filson and Foss Media, we present the remarkable story of one man’s quest to live a full life.
In 2007, on a fateful February day, in the remote Northern Wisconsin woods, a solo independent logger named Gary Edinger severed his left leg off while felling a tree. Twenty miles from help, alone, and in forty below temperatures, Gary summoned a remarkable willpower and crawled to his pickup, then drove to safety.
Catch a glimpse inside the life and down time of Canadian native hunting guide, Rye Johnson.
The life of a guide is often the ultimate definition of turning passion into a career. Years, often decades, are spent honing the craft of a would-be guide before he or she takes paying clientele into the crags and rivers most people dare not venture alone.
We get into Aaron’s head to learn more about his design process.
If you know anything about the design world, you’ve heard the name Aaron Draplin. And if you’re lucky enough to live in Portland, you’ve probably encountered one of his pop-ups at the Night Market or around town. Known for his bold aesthetic and personality to match, Aaron lives here in Portland and we were lucky enough to have him on board to design some accessories for our latest Danner x Timbers release.
Simple and satisfying. We looked to the Seacat family for their favorite way to prepare turkey breasts.
Brine Ingredients:
1⁄2 cup brown sugar
1⁄2 cup salt
2 handfuls of peppercorn
2 lemons, quartered
2 oranges, quartered
4 cups water
4 oz. of your favorite bourbon
Townes Seacat sets a goal to get a tom at age 4.
Each year, a tight knit group of families and friends gather at Bobby Warner’s Tucker’s Ridge Farm in Meigs County, Ohio for the opening days of the youth turkey season – a restricted season allowing kids the opportunity to hunt before the general public. Mark Seacat and Bobby Warner have hunted around the world together, but this unique season is a special opportunity to focus on the kids.
Relying on little more than intuition and a rough sketch, our friend Trevor Gordon went to work restoring an abandoned 20' fishing vessel.
In May of 2018, I walked through a field of mustard seed up to my chest, close to my home in the Santa Barbara, CA harbor. In the middle of the field sat a 20’ broken up old fishing vessel, hardly visible below the weeds.
Take a tour of Jim Phillip’s curation of over 1,600 sheds in Southwest Montana.
Near the headwaters of the Missouri River in Southwest Montana is a history museum like you’ve never seen. You won’t find a miner’s headlamp, old models, or the first microwave. There’s no admission fee, no wristbands, or entry stamp. This museum – built by miles logged and sweat spilled – holds the history of the Headwaters written in bone, and Jim ‘Antlerman’ Phillips is its one-man curation team.
It all started with the idea of creating the best fly fishing boot made in the United States…
Combining our proud tradition of quality and craftsmanship with Patagonia’s expertise in fly fishing and innovation, we got to work designing the Foot Tractor and River Salt wading boots.
We head to the Neff Solar Site in Bend, Oregon to put our Stronghold work boots to the test.
It’s October in Bend, Oregon: Portland’s sun-soaked cousin three hours to the southeast. Temperatures are temperamental this time of year. Bend is high desert country, which means that the clear, autumn days often begin below freezing and blister into the 80s by midday.
Follow along as our friends from META take a break from the daily grind to cross Wyoming by motorcycle.
Countless unread corporate emails, an obsessive boss, my loving family, and the Denver skyline — all slowly disappeared in my rearview. Ahead of me, six riders from different walks of life, all with a common focus; the Wyoming National Parks; and the miles ahead of us on a collection of Triumphs.
Join Jainee Dial and Lindsey Elliott for the first Wylder Field Trip - an intimate group retreat to Homer, Alaska with a key focus on cultural ecology.
This September, we sent some of our boots to our friends at Wylder as they journeyed into the wild landscape of Homer, Alaska. From glacial hiking to chartered salmon fishing, this field trip brought the group a greater appreciation and understanding of the Alaskan eco-system.
Our friends at Seacat Creative caught up with Chester Floyd of RER Bows to learn more about the state of traditional archery.
Born in Eden, Wisconsin, a sleepy town of 875 people on the fringe of Lake Michigan in the heart of America’s Dairyland, Chester Floyd is the owner of Stone Point Trading Company and bowyer at RER Bows. At 26 years old, he’s rising as one of the top traditional bow builders in the world.
Photographer and fly-fishing guide, Naoto Aoki, finally gets the opportunity to hunt in the peak of the elk season.
As the fog lifted, I made my way into elk country. Within minutes of leaving my truck, a bull was screaming only a few hundred yards away. I called to him and closed the distance as quickly as I could. Suddenly, through the trees, I could see antlers and he was coming in fast!
Photo by Shane Rickert
Seacat Creative shares photos and sentiments from some of their most memorable locations.
As hunters, harvesting an animal is only half the reward. The more we’re in the field, the more we desire to to set foot on high mountain passes, in deep timber and on open prairies. It’s a classic feedback loop, but one we’re glad to be stuck in.
Frankie Foss heads to Haida Gwaii on a tandem bicycle named Betsy fo her first bikepacking trip.
Inception of the trip occurred, as many grand adventures do, over one too many bottles of wine in our friend Ben’s Vancouver, BC apartment. The idea was to explore a remote archipelago off of Northern British Columbia’s notoriously rugged coastline via bicycle. It’s called bikepacking, and yes, it’s a thing. Our rookie status required us to start with the simplest of tasks. First up, discover what the hell this thing called bikepacking actually is.
Follow Erin Braun on a once-in-a-lifetime red stag hunt in Patagonia.
Miserable. Drenched. It didn’t matter what overly expensive, seam-sealed gear we were touting – we were soaked to the core. We crouched low to the rocky soil, half listening attentively for sign of red stag and half trying to shield our faces from the chilled, sideways rain that pelted us. A snapped twig or a faint roar is all it took; every minute of that miserable morning was worth it.
We went onsite with Reikow Design in Gig Harbor, Wash. to put our new women's Vicious work boots to the test. After watching landscape designer, Becca Reikow, lead the project, we asked what plants she recommends most for landscaping in the Pacific Northwest.
Free live music at Danner Union Way on Thursday, July 12th from 6pm – 8pm. We’re throwing a party to celebrate our sponsorship of Pickathon Music Festival.
