Tag archives for kayaking
Kamchatka Whitewater Expedition: Source-to-Sea Kayaking in Wildest Russia (Photos)
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on July 14, 2010 Bryan Smith is leading a team of whitewater kayakers on a month long expedition to Russia’s remote Kamchatka Peninsula. Funded by the National Geographic Society’s Expedition Council, the team will be attempting several source-to-sea first descents of previously un-run rivers, as well as working with a diverse team of scientists, NGOs, and locals to help…
Kamchatka Expedition: Kayakers Attempt Source-to-Sea First Descents in Wildest Russia
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on July 6, 2010 Bryan Smith is leading a team of whitewater kayakers on a month long expedition to Russia’s remote Kamchatka Peninsula. Funded by the National Geographic Society’s Expedition Council, the team will be attempting several source-to-sea first descents of previously un-run rivers, as well as working with a diverse team of scientists, NGOs, and locals to help…
Expedition Mekong: Kayakers Help Scientists Save Fish, Big and Small
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on February 17, 2010 Text and photographs by Kyle Dickman.I'm at Khone Falls on the Mekong River in Laos with filmmaker-kayaker Trip Jennings (above, center) and Zeb Hogan (below), the host of the National Geographic Channel's Monster Fish show and an expert on the region's fishes. We're trying to figure out how a proposed dam at the falls, one of the…
Hello, British Columbia: Four Trips in the Land of the Olympics
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on February 12, 2010 Today the Olympics begin in Vancouver, but in one contest Canada already has the U.S. beat. As an outdoors outpost, British Columbia outscores the American West across the board. The Pacific-hugging province is as big as California, Oregon, and Washington combined. But with only four million residents (Cali alone has 36 million), BC’s rugged mountain…
Best New Trips in the World: Biking, Kayaking and Rafting in the Bitterroot Mountains of Idaho and Montana
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on November 26, 2009 For our annual Adventure Travel issue, we scoured the globe to find the 25 Best New Trips in the World for 2010, complete with a Best Trips photo gallery. Today, we present Idaho and Montana. The world's far corners are now well within reach. IDAHO + MONTANA: Bitterroot Bonanza As the co-owner of ROW Adventures, Peter Grubb has…
Best New Trips in the World: Sea Kayak, Snorkel, and Swim with Whales in Tonga
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on November 23, 2009 For our annual Adventure Travel issue, we scoured the globe to find the 25 Best New Trips in the World for 2010, complete with a Best Trips photo gallery. Today, we present Tonga. The world’s far corners are now well within reach. TONGA: Whale World Each June, some 450 humpback whales arrive in the shallow waters off Tonga’s…
Best New Trips in the World: Sail (and Kayak and Snorkel) in Madagascar’s Waters
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on November 10, 2009 For our annual Adventure Travel issue, we scoured the globe to find the 25 Best New Trips in the World for 2010, complete with a Best Trips photo gallery. Today, we present Madagascar. The world's far corners are now well within reach. MADAGASCAR: Sail the Indian Ocean Known for its 70-plus species of lemurs, Madagascar…
Best New Trips in the World: Hike Ireland’s Northern Coast
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on November 5, 2009 For our annual Adventure Travel issue, we scoured the globe to find the 25 Best New Trips in the World for 2010, complete with a Best Trips photo gallery. Today, we present Ireland. The world's far corners are now well within reach. Ireland: Northern Ireland, Finally Even if Ireland’s north coast weren’t the setting for…
Explorer Jon Bowermaster on Kayaking the World’s Oceans
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on September 23, 2009 Jon Bowermaster’s OCEANS 8 project spanned a decade and took him and his teams around the world by sea kayak—and six of the expeditions turned into feature stories for ADVENTURE. One, "Storming the Islands of Fire and Ice," is featured in our (great) just released anthology, The New Age of Adventure (order a copy). We…
Kayaking the Rio Grande…With Sunken Drug Vehicles?
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on August 6, 2009 Text by Laura Buckley “It’s very calm and beautiful down here, you wouldn’t know that we were paddling on an international boundary with a reputation for lawlessness,” says Eric Ellman in "Kayaking to a Different View of the Rio Grande" on NPR.com. Ellman, the executive director of the conservation group Los Caminos del Rio, wants people to…
Urban Adventure: Kayaking Jamaica Bay, Brooklyn
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on July 17, 2009 Text by Ryan Bradley; Photograph and map courtesy of NPS and New York Harbor Conservancy Last weekend I went kayaking in Jamaica Bay, Brooklyn. Like a lot of outdoor excursions in the middle of large urban areas, this one was tinged with absurdity. Jamaica Bay is perhaps best known as the body of water you…
Top Ten Urban Kayaking Cities – Plus Fireworks Paddles
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on July 2, 2009 Kayaking during the Fourth of July celebration in Pittsburgh. Photo courtesy of Cara Rufenacht, Venture Outdoors. If you live in a waterfront city or are visiting one this weekend for Independence Day festivities, chances are you’ve seen at least one stranger navigating your metropolis in a kayak and wondered, Could that actually be . .…
Kayaking Bolivia: Shrinking Glaciers, First Descents, Culture on the Brink
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on April 6, 2009 Text and photographs by Andy Maser, a National Geographic Young Explorers grant recipient and Epicocity Project team member We’ve spent one week in Bolivia now, and already we’ve completed a fantastic first descent, discussed effects of climate change with Bolivia’s chief hydrologist, and partied the night away with locals in La Paz. I’m high in…
Kayaking Bolivia: Tracking Climate Change Where Carbon Emissions Are Low
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on April 6, 2009 Text and photographs by Andy Maser, a National Geographic Young Explorers grant recipient and Epicocity Project team member We’ve spent one week in Bolivia now, and already we’ve completed a fantastic first descent, discussed effects of climate change with Bolivia’s chief hydrologist, and partied the night away with locals in La Paz. I’m high in…
The ADVENTURE Top 10: Best Waterfall Kayaking Runs in U.S. (with Video)
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on April 1, 2009 Text by Andrea Minarcek. Read previous ADVENTURE Top 10 lists. Last week, kayaker Pedro Olivia crushed the previous world-record run (108 feet high) and careened across the lip of Brazil’s 127-foot Salto Belo falls. Now, we’d never attempt anything that epic, but watching the stunning footage (below) of Olivia’s run did inspire us to want…
The ADVENTURE Top 10: Best Waterfall Kayaking Runs in U.S. (with Video)
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on March 30, 2009 Text by Andrea Minarcek. Read previous ADVENTURE Top 10 lists. Last week, kayaker Pedro Olivia crushed the previous world-record run (108 feet high) and careened across the lip of Brazil’s 127-foot Salto Belo falls. Now, we’d never attempt anything that epic, but watching the stunning footage (below) of Olivia’s run did inspire us to want to…
Video: Kayaker Recalls Record-Breaking Waterfall Plunge
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on March 26, 2009 Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy This morning Pedro Olivia and Ben Stookesberry (one of our previous Adventurers of the Year) were interviewed by Ann Curry on The Today Show. Olivia just set a new world record by going over this 127-foot Salto Belo falls on the Rio Sacre, a…
Will Paddle For Whisky: 30 Second Scotch Guide
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on February 10, 2009 Scotland's Inner Hebrides are where some of the Earth's rockiest coastlines meet its smoothest single malts. The best way to sample the small-batch distilleries on these isles is by kayak, one breathtaking paddle and one wee dram at a time. In our March issue, on newsstands now, writer Andrew Todhunter kayaks Scotland's whisky coast. Here, he gives…
Kayaker-Turned-Philanthropist Brad Ludden, Help Salute Other Adventurers Giving Back
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on January 20, 2009 Editor's Note: Today all eyes are on Washington, D.C., as Barack Obama takes office. But yesterday, our soon-to-be 44th president asked us to look to beyond ourselves to help others, encouraging Americans to use Martin Luther King Jr. Day to do acts of community service. Obama visited kids at the Sasha Bruce House, a shelter for homeless teenagers (he even…
Beyond Green Travel with Costas Christ
Oman’s Road Less Traveled
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on May 28, 2008 American travelers’ current reluctance to travel to the Middle East, egged on by media hype about danger and Islamic fear-mongering, has left Oman almost entirely to the young Europeans now flocking there. Our loss is their big gain. I just spent seven days kayaking the along the Straights of Hormuz, some 20 miles from the…
