Archive for May, 2009
Happy Sunday my fellow sublimity junkies. I hope you made it outside to enjoy the great outdoors this weekend. But if not, don’t feel bad. Today your virtual face-slapping of the sublime is guaranteed to make you feel good and momentarily forget about all the woulda-coulda-shouldas of the previous week.… Read the rest
I don’t even know why I’m posting this. Maybe it’s because I like the ocean and sea otters live there. Or maybe it’s just because this is the cutest damn thing I’ve seen in months.… Read the rest
Here at Wend we have a new found love of slacklining, but you’ll probably never see us high-lining anything like this… Dean Potter recently did this 100 ft. solo walk on a highline in Yosemite National Park. That means walking across a thin piece of webbing hanging in the air… Read the rest
It’s that time of week: Base Jumping Saturday! The day when we bring you one of our favorite base jumping videos. This one hails from Switzerland; doesn’t it make you want to go visit the Alps?… Read the rest
Last Friday the Wend team decided that taking advantage of the afternoon sun was a better choice than being stuck in an office. Fortunately our good friends and iWend Ambassadors Team YogaSlackers were in town and they were up for an instructional afternoon of slacklining. You’ll see in the video… Read the rest
Captain Charles Moore discovered the eco-horror that is The North Pacific Gyre, and founded an NGO, to combat the problem, Alagalita. One of his operatives, Anna Cummins, who wrote the piece for us, kept up the outreache through Junkride. It looks like I’m going to sail with Anna to The… Read the rest
Today marks the last Friday in May and our last extreme weather shot. We figured we’d go out with a bang, so we chose this photo, shot by Brian Nelson on Ross Island in Antarctica during the southern hemisphere’s springtime — August and September — after Nelson spent a year… Read the rest
Being avid cyclists and bike commuters, the Wend team is extra sensitive to issues that concern those who choose two wheels instead of four. That’s why we have continuing coverage of signs in bike lanes. You wouldn’t put this sign in the middle of the road and obstruct automobile traffic,… Read the rest
Khiv Raj Gurjar is proof that you can push the limits no matter what age. At 61, Gurjar is a proponent of Extreme Yoga, balancing in various yoga poses on a 300 ft. cliff… on a BMX bike.
Gurjar, who lives in Jodhpur, India, has been practicing yoga since he… Read the rest
Richard Bangs didn’t need to write Quest for the Kasbah, but I’m glad he did.
Interesting concept, but I don’t think I’d want this for my commuter bike. According to China.org.cn, it took this man 18 months to complete his crazy design.
[Via: Boing Boing]… Read the rest
If you hadn’t caught on, here at Wend we’ve started doing gear reviews. But since we don’t believe in paid advertising placement, these reviews are far from your standard “what to take on the trail” summaries. We do review stuff based on “greeness” but that’s just cause we’re dirty treehuggers… Read the rest
“Some will win, some will lose, some are born to sing the blues, oh the story it never ends, it goes on and on and on and on-”– Journey. Yeah, it’s goofy as hell to quote Journey, but I like some cheese to go with my schadenfreude wipeout addiction. Man,… Read the rest
Surfers, as well as lovers of surf film, in the Portland area will want to book their calendars for a showing of “Out There,” this Thursday, May 28, at Laurelhurst Theater.
What: Teton Gravity Research (TGR) presents “Out There,” a 16mm and HiDef film taking a progressive, fresh look at… Read the rest
Basically, here is the gist: Wend is good friends with Save Our Wild Salmon because they protect an endangered fish that is the quintessential Northwest icon. Healthy salmon runs are good for the economy, and predicated on sound environmental policy. That’s why we hooked up with our Platform Ambassador, Emily… Read the rest
