welcome to ivan outdoors

The nexus of all my outdoor ambitions.

Disclaimer: 

You have arrived at the wrong place. Go back now. Failure to do so could trigger a sudden micro-adventure.  Lingering could cause lasting damage to your work ethic, disdain for authority, desires of absenteeism and possibly outdoor activism.  Other possible side effects include; Stoked, Pumped, Dumped, Marital-stress, dirtbag-syndrome, the jimmy-legs, excessive body oder, Marital-bliss, mediocrity, slipped disks, poor sleep, dereliction, drunk, anal puckering, drunk dereliction, unemployment,  halitosis, taint-chaffing, hammer-toe, lower blood pressure, misanthropy and dissatisfaction with your current life.  


ADVOCACY

Organizations doing good work to protect our public lands and waters are linked here.  If you do no other thing than book mark this page and use it to visit and explore these valuable organizations that would be great.  Please consider kicking them a couple bucks or more once in a while.  Without these organization we would have considerably less land and water open to us.  Our greatest public asset in this country are the lands and waterway of the public domain.  Now under assault, they need our attention, use, and energy.  One easy way to support this resource is to support any number of outdoor advocacy organizations.  But first and foremost get out there and use it or lose it!

Links to worthy organizations


Ivan Outdoor: neurodivergent nature nutrition for the helplessly hamstrung weekend warrior? 

I have mixed feelings about publishing my doings in the outdoors.  Part of me wants to keep quiet.  Part of me wants to share beautiful places. Part of me wants to give some places more attention. Especially with forces conspiring to put up road blocks to our earthen assets. Yet there are places I think I’ll keep to myself or at least not make it easy to find. I would like to help drive support to organizations that are fighting to protect our wild places and inspire action. I would like to help educate, as there is a real need of outdoor education from best practices to etiquette, survival to ecology. So please check out the categories to the right.

paddling of all kinds

adventures on the bike

flailing around on sticks

I practice walking