Archive for March, 2007
I’ve been testing out GoPro’s Digital Hero 3 and I gotta say…it takes a little getting used to to get great shots, but after that learning period, damn it’s awesome. The camera is itty bitty, about the size of half a Clif bar mushed into a square. (sorry for that… Read the rest
Before Wend, our Ed and Chief, Ian, had a job in San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua. It was what most surfers would consider a dream job. He ran a surf guide business, taking clients to various breaks along Nicaragua’s coast. Basically, Ian was paid to surf. I had a chance… Read the rest
Apparently in an effort to boost tourism, Capitola in Santa Cruz County wants to reintroduce the legendary Capitola Classic, an annual downhill skateboard race. While, nearby cities are making efforts to build skateparks, Capitola wants to re-visit the now fringe discipline of downhill. If they pull it off, it will… Read the rest
Eddyflower.com, a paddling website, is hosting a new competition to benefit First Descents, an organization for young kayakers with cancer. It’s pretty cool–in a 30 day period, you and your teammates (5 max) paddle as many rivers as you can and log your vertical feet. Then they add it all… Read the rest
Recently Wend featured an article telling the story of a band of surfers and photogs searching for a perfect, endless wave on Africa’s Zambezi river. Naturally, we were intrigued by a story over at Gadling about an increasingly popular tidal bore wave on the Amazon river.
The pororoca is a … Read the rest
Filmed by Bike in Portland has made the final selections for this year’s festival. 19 films and they are giving away an Electra Amsterdam. If you are in P-town, go see it, otherwise get the DVD.… Read the rest
Wend’s home, Oregon, is on the cusp of building a large scale offshore wave energy farm, the first of its kind in the world. I’ve been doing a significant amount of research into this on behalf of Surfrider Oregon, in an attempt to figure out what the implications might be… Read the rest
By now, you have probably made up your mind whether you love or hate the “Fixed gear” trend. Hipster posturing or cutting edge urban pursuit? Either way riding fixed-gear track bikes in an urban setting has been responsible for getting more and more people into bicycle culture over the last… Read the rest
Lately I’ve been bombarded with a slew of awesome kayaking videos. The latest I’ve heard about, Light and Liquid… Read the rest, is being put out by New Beligium Brewery (Fat Tire beer, mmmm, yummy). Or their super cool marketing guy. Or both. It’s somewhat unclear. Anyway, he describes it as a
In issue #2 Wend ran a story about green surfboards. We featured two shapers making wooden boards, Grain on the east coast and Hess on the west. Check out Hess’s blog and see his latest gun.… Read the rest
The latest travel blog/community website is off to a running start. Matador Travel is worth a look. You can read travel blogs and stories, get travel advice and much more.… Read the rest
About a year and a half ago, right when we were starting Wend, I found out about Liz Clark and the voyage of Swell in a surfing forum. Her mission is simple, “sail around the world and stop off in remote places of the world to surf waves wherever they’re… Read the rest
My friends Sloan and Amy have recently begun an adventure that proves you don’t have to be in your early twenties in order to sell everything you have to go see the world. Last year they realized that they were unfulfilled in their occupations, but instead of trying to fill… Read the rest
There is one bicycle race that even the mention of its title makes most roadies cringe. It is the Paris-Roubaix, and it is because of the cobbles. Cycling careers have been made and destroyed during what many consider to be the world’s toughest bike race. Scott Coady’s latest film, called… Read the rest
In 1992, Eugene Buchanan, publisher and editor of Paddler… Read the rest magazine, traveled with three friends to the former Soviet Union, joined up with a group of Latvian paddlers they’d never met and ran one of the hardest, most dangerous rivers in Russia, the Bashkaus. A few years later, NOLS (National Outdoor
