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A Place Beyond (APB), a wilderness campus for students taking remote classes. It provides academic support, professional mentorship, and optional workshops that cultivate social, emotional, and real-life skills. Living in a bubble with forty other students in the woods was not how I imagined my college experience, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

ENO (Eagles Nest Outfitters), creators of ingeniously crafted camping hammocks and innovative outdoor accessories, is partnering with the nonprofit organization Trees for the Future.

Eagles Nest Outfitters (ENO) has joined 1% for the Planet, pledging to donate 1% of annual sales to support nonprofit organizations focused on the environment.

Discover Asheville through the eyes of the local business that live, work and play here! Can you spot our hammock?! Asheville, North Carolina, is an inspiring place to call home. Talented local business leaders and entrepreneurs across Buncombe County are creating and distributing innovative products that impact people throughout America and worldwide. Learn more about the Asheville area’s economic development initiatives, site selection and thriving business community at ashevillechamber.org/economic-development   By the Asheville Chamber of Commerce.

Collaborating on a rare joint-fundraiser, ENO will donate 200 ATC and PCTA special-edition trail hammocks at this year’s Winter Outdoor Retailer January 10, 2013 – Asheville, NC – If you’re heading to this year’s Winter Outdoor Retailer, be sure to stop by the Eagles Nest Outfitters (ENO) booth for a fun hammock sale with a competitive twist!  The brand is hosting a friendly competition between America’s two most famed thru-hiking trails and their conservation groups, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) and the Pacific Crest Trail Association (PCTA), with all proceeds donated to the organizations. Dubbed “East vs. West: A Tale of Sister Trails,” the event will raise funds for both trail associations while spreading awareness about the importance of trail preservation.  ENO will be selling their special edition ATC hammock and newly released PCTA hammock with a set of ENO Atlas Straps at a special price of $50. This will be the first time that ENO, the ATC and PCTA have collaborated on a fundraising event. While the organizations hope that the competitive aspect of the fundraiser will result in increased funding for trail preservation, the main focus of the event is to spread awareness and gain support for both...

Asheville, N.C., December 14, 2013 – Don’t worry, there’s plenty of room for two in the new SweetWater DoubleNest Hammock from Eagles Nest Outfitters (ENO), the first hammock from the ranks of ENO produced with a brewing company. Designed with both company’s beliefs in mind, the cobranded creation is the ultimate nest for unwinding and enjoying a cold one.

Touch A Life Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Dallas, Texas that works to rehabilitate and support children who are vulnerable to trafficking, child labor and slavery in Southeast Asia and West Africa. With programs in Vietnam, Cambodia and Ghana, Touch A Life rescues, houses and educates exploited children. Touch A Life Co-Founders, Pam and Randy Cope created this inspiring foundation in 1999 after traveling to Southeast Asia to visit friends who run an orphanage in Vietnam. Here, the Copes saw poverty they never imagined. Their hearts went out especially to the street children (known as doi moi – “dust of the earth”) who were forced to live and beg on the streets, enduring hunger, abuse and the constant danger of being picked up by child traffickers and forced into a life of slavery. What started as a small apartment in Saigon, where they housed 15 rescued street children, grew and expanded to become a non-profit that provides vulnerable children across the globe with three meals a day, clothing, education, a loving family, resources to improve their futures and, above all, hope.   Touch A Life currently runs an empowerment program in Vietnam that offers assistance with school tuition, food...

Anyone who has a dog understands the struggles that come along with taking a vacation. Finding a friend to watch over your dog or resorting to a kennel is never an easy or fun process to go through. Enjoying the outdoors with your dog is an easy and fun way to take a vacation and still enjoy the company of your canine companion.

When you’re backpacking, camping or – God forbid – when SHTF, and you’re stranded in the middle of nowhere with no supplies, the first thing you must do is find water. When you consider the “Rule of Threes” – you can survive 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water and 3 weeks without food – you realize that finding water should always be a top priority. To stay in good health, we need to drink a minimum of 64 ounces of water per day, or 2 full nalgenes. (Of course, particularly active people should drink more.)