Travel is a good vehicle for encouraging us to work for positive change. And sometimes the online travel world is the perfect place to gather energy for that change.
Last year some amazing travel bloggers came up with the idea of Passports With Purpose, a fund-raising campaign that would harness… Read the rest
Freediving World Record – 88m without fins from william trubridge on Vimeo.
This video is a bit slower paced than the ones we normally post on Extreme Saturday, but it’s no less intense. Earlier this year William Trubridge broke the freediving world record of 88 meters (that’s 288 feet) —… Read the rest
Rain, rain, rain. Since we’re based in the Pacific Northwest we figured we should dedicate the final photo for the October Friday Photo contest to the weather element for which our autumns are so well known. Michael Sulis snapped this great shot of a single leaf getting drenched by fall… Read the rest
Here’s a little Thursday humor for anyone who has every experienced the joy of flying a budget airline.… Read the rest
Sometimes we just need to see our world in a new perspective, and Alexandre Duret-Lutz has found an intriguing and beautiful way to do so. The images are created using a method called “stereographic projection.” Not totally sure what that means (although there are directions on how to do it… Read the rest
We already posted a whole gallery of pics of the Hopworks Bike Bar, but it’s such a cool (and local!) contraption that we had to share this video with you as well. A little interview with Hopworks Urban Brewery’s Chris Ettinger to learn more about the bike… because who doesn’t … Read the rest
When you’ve grown up in the Northwest with mountains practically at your back door, it’s hard to imagine living in a place where winter powder isn’t a reality. But there are plenty of people out there who don’t live near snow, and even worse, have never even seen the white… Read the rest
There’s a lot of talk about the airline industry trying to be more environmentally friendly. As you may already know, aviation currently accounts for 1.6% of global greenhouse emissions, but that number could grow larger if the industry goes unchecked. And so, the industry and many of its airlines are… Read the rest
Now that you’ve ditched your dreams of a velvet-lined, chrome-plated coffin of bling for a more eco-friendly version, you’re going to have to make plans for how to get to your resting place. Welcome the Bicycle Hearse.
This fancy contraption belongs to Sunset Hills, a small cemetary in Eugene, Oregon… Read the rest
We tend to focus mostly on human powered adventures here at Wend, but this one was just too crazy to pass up: the Netherlands to Antarctica by tractor. WTF? No, we’re not making this up.
Dutch actress Manon Ossevoortis is the adventurer behind the Southpole Expedition, riding a tractor from… Read the rest
We spent weeks counting down. We blogged, we tweeted, we Facebooked — so much that some of our friends started to question our sanity — just to spread the word, hoping that we could do our part in encouraging to take part in the October 24th International Day of Climate… Read the rest
The travel industry is soon to see a drastic reduction in its footprint: the International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced Friday that it will approve biofuels for use on commercial flights by 2010. “For the first time, air transport has the possibility of an alternative to traditional jet fuel,” said… Read the rest
Really… WTF? You’d be better off staying home if this is your idea of camping.
Lamest. Invention. Ever.… Read the rest
We had the pleasure of meeting adventurer and eco-superstar Roz Savage last week. She’s best known for her solo row across the Atlantic, but she also believes in protecting the environment, so much that she’s even been named a UN Climate Hero.
Just like her, we’ll be out today taking… Read the rest
We like to introduce you to some of the weirdest and oddest extreme sports out there, and we’re pretty sure that today we’ve found one that tops them all: parahawking. Yeah, it’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like: paragliding + hawks. If for some weird reason this video gets… Read the rest
