Adventure Racing We Will Go
Giving “no pain, no gain” a whole new meaning
By Mike Bitton
About four years ago, I was introduced to a sport called adventure racing. During these expedition-length races, participants slog on and on for hundreds of miles, trekking, mountain biking, kayaking and rappelling, literally for days on end...Escapes: Up, up, and away!
Riding along with Vista Balloon Adventures
By Eric A. Johnson
There are many ways to experience an adventure, and, among the people driven to do so, adventure tastes vary greatly. Whatever your preference, it seems most adventurers have a hot-air balloon ride on their 'would love to do' list...
Hiking in a waterfall wonderland
Multnomah Falls and beyond
By Mike Bitton
Each year, an estimated 2 million visitors lay eyes on Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge. If you seek a little more adventure from your day in the Gorge, though, I challenge you to view its iconic Benson Bridge through a different lens...
Whitewater swimming? Why not...
Riverboarding takes extreme sports to the next level
By Mike Bitton
I was perched dangerously in the boulders at Carter Falls near Estacada, Ore., waiting to photograph the next paddle team competing in the 2005 Upper Clackamas Whitewater Festival, when a couple of crazy guys in wetsuits, helmets and fins flushed through the Class IV rapids...on boogie boards...
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