When first I started skiing the skiing vs snowboarding argument wasn’t around yet. I was three, and started racing by the time I was twelve. I loved it, but after I strapped on a snowboard for the first time when I was 13, I didn’t put on a pair of skis for the next 20 years.
I love both skiing and snowboarding. During my many years riding in the Northwest, mainly British Columbia, Alberta, and Montana, I never had any problems with others because of my choice of ride.
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Queensland‘s weather is iconic and known the world over for being beautiful one day and perfect the next.
Technology has advanced sports in ways that few people could have imagined. Snowboard designs were applied to skis, resulting in the forgiving fat skis that are so popular now. Paragliding technology was combined with wake boarding technology resulting in kitesurfing. You can even ski in the most unlikely of places — like Dubai — thanks to technological advances.
While at the Winter Outdoor Retailer retailer conference I stumbled across a brand that I’d dreamt of for a long time — a brand that is socially conscious and makes outdoors clothes that are functional and packable, but that also look stylish when you’re out on the town. That brand is called Nau.
The Adventure Travel Trade Association recently released this infographic on the size of the adventure travel industry. There’s some really interesting information in here!
I’m surrounded by a deep blue haze. Small locals this region of the world of varying shades of yellow, black, and blue pass by, seeming not to notice me. I take a deep breath in, and blow bubbles back out. Looking up, I can see the surface of the water from down below. I’m a traveler in a new land: scuba diving the Similan Islands in Thailand. Looking back over my 6 days, having completed 18 dives from a live-aboard boat sailing through some of the most beautiful islands this world has to offer, I was privy to quite a few amazing sights.
As a traveler, these are the types of experiences we grow to crave.
I turned around in the water and saw my other two dive buddies, clearly thinking the same thing I was – I want to see the white glitter!