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FRANKLIN MOUNTAIN LIFE
The Franklin Mountain Life
Whether you hike, climb, camp or lay on a couch, with a drink in hand, binging your latest show… why not do it in style?
We aren’t here to tell you to get out and hike… although thats one thing we love to do. All we need from you…? A couple bucks to sport one of our awesome most comfortable wears. Grab one now and we’ll send it to your door. Promise. Live the Franklin Mountain Life with us

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What are you so afraid of?
I remember only having a leather backpack, some Nikes, and a hoodie on the very first day I went hiking. (Truth be told, I wish there was an FML back then to gear me up right! It was a day that I’d thought to myself: enough being scared of doing things like this. I’d only […]

Community
Ryan Conklin was his name. Good man. At first, he just seemed like another member of the beginners’ hiking group I’d joined some 6, 7 years ago in Las Cruces, NM; well before the idea of Franklin Mountain Life was even in its inception phase. He was a tall guy, 6’5” and a lean silhouette […]

If Chuck DeBroder is reading this…
If y’all wouldn’t mind giving the aforementioned a quick text and let him know that this sudden change in our beautiful, 350-sunshine-day a year is not well-appreciated. Though we do suppose that the 15 day window between our sunshine days and total days in the year is where anything can (and quite frankly should) happen. […]

Bad Decisions
“I don’t know, 9 miles seems a little more rough than what I’m used to…” Word-for-word this was my sentiment toward the new challenge presented to me on a rock platter. I’d never hiked Guadalupe Peak in all my years (barely any, really) of adventuring and photographing mountains. I have an overdeveloped frontal lobe, we’ll […]