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Jollydaze Gift Guide // Week 1

Stay Wild

It's the Jollydaze again and we're here to help with the Gift Giving. Here are a couple ideas of goods we think are good to give. We'll have more gift ideas every week in December, so keep checking in.

Sanuk // sanuk.com
Feet are ugly. Feet are the deformed and neglected underworld of the human body. Feet are tortured artists. Feet have weird taste that our beautiful brains will never understand. Fuzzy slippers are pure poetry for the feet.
Shor-Knitty // $65

Uppercut Deluxe // uppercutdeluxe.com
Guys are filthy and disgusting wild animals, but they clean up pretty good when they have a good reason. The reason is usually sex. Who am I kidding. The reason is always sex! If it wasn’t for sex we’d have no reason to clean our hairy wild animal bodies.
Combo Kit // $45

Arbor // arborcollective.com
I saw a cactus wearing sunglasses riding this big mountain gun. The arrowhead tip of the board drove right through a silver rainbow causing it to shatter into a million mirrored diamonds dancing in the parking lot under a flickering street light. The music was all slashy, surf-styled synth and heavy metal drums with a full symphony of disco high notes.
Shreddy Krueger // $499.95

Danner // danner.com
This is a collaboration boot with Topo Designs. I’d like to see this boot on Smokey the Bear as he stomps out a cannabis joint ceaselessly dropped by the cartoon beatnik bear Yogi. Smokey would be kind of mad, but he’d give Yogi a hug and say, “If not you, who?”
Danner Ridge Dark Brown // $380

Burton // burton.com
Your camp chair is embarrassing. It shows up to the campfire all drunk on wine coolers, lighting cigarettes backwards, saying “Duuuude” for no reason, and falling over all the time. It has no style, no personality, no polka dots! Dump your old chair and fall in love with this one!
Free // Watch our Instagram feed for details @staywildmagazine

All Good // allgxxd.com
The world needs a puffy vest to stuff its hands into right now. The wind is blowing harder, the cold is a motherfucker, and the politics are total bullshit. We just need to hold tight in our puffy vest and wait for the right moment to move. The time will come when we trade our vest in for battle armor, but for right now let it be your bunker in the storm.
The Tourist // $88

Proof // iwantproof.com
These shades are made of recycled aluminum & sustainably sourced wood. They are also made of Top Gun VHS tapes, sunlight dancing on the bottom of a trout filled river, trout dreams, ice cream frost, and the feeling you get when you stand at the edge of a really high cliff.
Sundance Aluminum // $130

The Original Nomad // theoriginalnomad.com
Where would you take a portable hot tub? Really, just think about that. What a nice thing to think about.
et One // $650

Element // Element.com
The world is covered in cement, so it's only natural that today's nature lover would bring a skateboard on a hike. 
Black Sky Explorer Elite // $84

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Let’s Be-Pals

Stay Wild

Two Magazines Mushrooming Together

Words by Scrappers

Photos by Taro Otake

 

Did you know that Stay Wild has a Japanese sister magazine? Maybe you did know, but I just found out. The magazine is called Be-Pal. They have been publishing monthly for over 35 years. Dang! That’s a long time. We’ve only been at it for 3 years. 

Be-Pal editor Sana wrote us about visiting Portland. He wanted to interview our magazine about Portland’s outdoorsy nature culture. We thought the best way to talk about that story would be on a drive to the coast together.

Our magazine is actually a family business. Amy “The Mommy” handles the responsible paperwork stuff, Camper “The Kid” keeps the wild alive, and me “The Scrappers” helps serve the story. The visiting Be-Pal crew was two writers Sana & Sako, the photographer Taro, and Rika translating our conversations. 

Together we had seven people and our beat-up little car wasn’t going to fit everyone. We needed an Adventure Wagon!

Adventure Wagon is a new sort of van rental company based in Portland. They get Sprinters and build them out to be super handy for road trips. These vans are like a tool box for your adventures! Everything is adjustable, so if you need a bike-centric, camp-centric, surf-centric or seating-centric set up it can happen. Plus, they’re insulated, so you can sleep in them without freezing your buns off.

We went with the seating-centric set up and headed west. As we drove we talked about the cross over between our two magazines.

I asked Sana, what he thought Be-Pal and Stay Wild had in common?

“Be-Pal and Stay Wild both focus on a mix of many type of activities. The concept of Stay Wild is to be like a camp fire bringing people together right? That sounds similar to Be-Pal’s style. For 35 years we’ve covered many kind of activities; camping, hiking, trekking, kayaking, horse-riding, climbing, bonfiring, bush crafting, SUPing, glamping, travel, etc…”

Yeah, we like those things too, but are more interested in motorcycling & skateboarding than SUPing & glamping. Bonfires are awesome though! We totally have that in common.

The names of our magazines have a lot in common too. Be-Pal means “Be pals with Nature.” Stay Wild means “Keep true to your nature.” We’re both nature lovers!

I asked Sana what stories they were looking for while visiting Portland. He said, ”Urban outdoor lives of Portlanders.” Specifically, “How local people enjoy outdoor life and what their favorite goods and activities are.” They were also interested in “unique garage brands” like The Original Nomad, Hand-Eye Supply, and Breadwinner Cycles.

I wondered if there is a region of Japan that is similar to Portland? “Yes, Kamakura, Itoshima, Higashikawa etc... these are very small towns where artists and creative outsiders live. There are similar shops, brands, and mountains and beaches, so people who love surfing and snow sports live there.” Cool! I want to go see Japan’s Portland. 

On the drive to the coast we stop to wander the woods. We tripped out on the shrooms off the trail and it sends us on a mushroom hunt. We all get our boots muddy. I find some tiny chanterelles. It's pretty late in the season, but we find the last two red huckleberries and eat them right away. They're still kind of sweet!

It's fun. It’s cold, raining, foggy, and super nice to have a big dry van to retreat to. The cup holder holds my mushrooms. Our Nau rain coats are drenched.

When we get to the coast the weather hasn’t changed much, but we’re here, so we pile out of the van and hike to Shorts Sands beach. I want to impress the crew with my fire building skills. I want to boil water over a campfire and make everyone coffee, but everything is wet and the best I can make is a smoke bomb. Good thing I brought a BioLite stove in my Alite Designs backpack and some dry sticks! Within minutes the water I got from the cold creek is boiling. I use a Stanley french press. It's tough and super compact. We drink together and flip through the pages of each other’s magazines under the loose cover of an evergreen. The rain kisses the pages.

Our magazines are from different places, but we’re all about the same thing. We love getting outside with our friends.

Learn more about Be-Pal >>>

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Urban Caving

Stay Wild

Exploring Underground Drains and Abandoned Mines

Story by Trevor Mottram

Photo by Trevor Mottram

When I moved to San Diego in 2012, I founded Southern California Exploration & Adventure (SoCalX) as a means of meeting people who wanted to explore places that were a little more interesting than the walking and bike paths at the local park. I was getting into exploring with my neighbor at the time, using websites to find places around San Diego to visit. After my first walk-in mine tunnel, I was hooked on the underground. It was a relatively small mine, about 200 feet deep, and contained old timbering and fallen air ducts, as well as the first mining relic I ever came across: a 1950s Montgomery Ward tool box, sitting on a wooden shelf. Three years later, we’re rappelling into vertical mine shafts, going deeper underground than ever! While SoCalX hosts a variety of events, from snorkeling to peak bagging, our main interests lie underground. 

Drain Photos by Bernie Freidin

Some of our members are extremely into storm drains. One member has mapped hundreds of miles of tunnels all over San Diego and Los Angeles, and has done everything from crawling on hand and knee through 24-inch diameter pipes to passing through 15 foot-high underground flood channels! He uses proper surveying gear and overlays his maps onto Google Earth—mainly for his own personal gratification, but he loves to share his photography and stories. Draining is a relatively safe hobby, but there are things to watch out for, namely animals, bums, punk kids, and all manner of random shit that’s found its way underground. Of course there’s the very remote possibility of a flash flood. 

There is also an infinite amount of graffiti, some of which is absolutely stunning while some looks like a chimp did it. Art is in the eye of the beholder, but crap art is crap art. While I don’t condone vandalism and tagging shit above ground, storm drains and tunnels are a perfect canvas, below the prying eye of society. Take note, kids: Go under the street, where people who actually want to see it can. Don’t doodle on buildings, especially if you’re one of these guys who wants to paint a wizard riding a unicorn, but only manages a stick figure holding what is supposed to be a gun, with “fuck you” scrawled above it.

While draining is pretty safe and has its own virtues, on the other end of the spectrum are abandoned mines. The very real fact is that old mines can be deadly. We often rappel down vertical shafts in the desert, where the ground at the bottom is littered with the skeletons and remains of rabbits, lizards, and rats. Haven’t found a dead guy yet, but it’s only a matter of time. Even worse than the possibility of falling to your death is blowing yourself up by stepping on a stick of dynamite or blasting cap. We explored a mine recently where we found a pile of 60 sticks! The older nitroglycerin gets, the more unstable it can become, even reacting to mere touch. Climbing over piles of rubble is a sketchy undertaking if you think you could be stepping on explosives. Scary stuff. Finding items left behind by miners decades ago is really fun, and the only time trash is remotely interesting.

Photo by Trevor Mottram

Now your interest is piqued and you’re thinking about getting underground, right? Start small with easy stuff and grow from there. Go find a storm drain and explore it. But don’t go straight to rappelling into mines if you know nothing about what you’re getting into. I suggest learning about mining history and techniques, and how the workings were dug. 

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