by Jacob Urban | Feb 2, 2022 | Enhance Your Backcountry
Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path. – Henry Winkler Life is hard. Beautifully hard. It is supposed to be. Full of the...
by Jacob Urban | Jan 31, 2022 | Enhance Your Backcountry, Jacob's Adventures
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. – Conrad Hilton I think of it as falling down and getting back up; over and over and over again. For me, the trick is...
by Jacob Urban | Sep 24, 2021 | Enhance Your Backcountry
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t. – Pete Seeger I consume no news media. Nothing for the last 3 to 4 years. When I get asked “How do you stay...
by Jacob Urban | Apr 1, 2020 | Enhance Your Backcountry, JHOLI
I have been a professional educator for 30 years. Over the last 25, I have studied the body through the personal practice of Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine. During that time I practiced both urban and wilderness protocols in several different mediums ranging from...
by Jacob Urban | Dec 1, 2019 | Enhance Your Backcountry, Snowpack Update
Understanding What’s Under Our Skis & How to Manage the Risks Associated With It As hard as it may be to believe, ski season in the backcountry is not really here yet. What I mean, is while the snow is piling up in the backcountry the early season...
by Jacob Urban | Aug 19, 2019 | Enhance Your Backcountry
There’s no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It’s experiencing the climb itself – in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue – that has to be the goal. Karyn Kusama My travel in the...
