Our Wend Ambassadors don’t mess around, proven by the latest update from Wend Ambassador Jamie Sterling who has been surfing down in Puerto Escondido. Thanks to photographer Pepe Gonzalez for taking the pics!
From Jamie:
Puerto Escondido is my favorite place to travel to. It offers me the quality of … Read the rest
For our summer issue Survival Kit we decided to do the all-time classic summer adventure: a river trip. So we rounded up some models (including our iWend Ambassador Dave Hoffman), sweet talked Oregon Rafting Team into loaning us a boat and Ben Sigler’s guiding skills, loaded up the cars with… Read the rest
Our iWend Ambassador Daniel Fox is in town this week prepping for the Portland exhibit of Wild Image Project: Works From Argentina, so we thought we’d give him a little kayaking time… but all we could find was this practice pool…… Read the rest
Surfing, sailing and environmentalism; Captain Liz Clark’s lifestyle is envied by many. In 2006 Clark set out on her 40-foot sailboat, Swell, on an adventure to circumnavigate the globe. She documents her travels on her iWend Ambassador blog, describing all the details of her adventure from crazy surf moments to… Read the rest
Santa Barbara based lifestyle and activewear company Horny Toad has been practicing a policy of “Do The Right Thing” since the brand was launched in 1995. That’s a policy that has translated into both the brand’s business and design philosophies.
Today the team at Horny Toad is leading the way… Read the rest
You would think that the infamous Pacific Northwest precipitation would translate into powdery trails up in the mountains. That’s what you would think. The reality is that a lot of the time we’re graced with days, even weeks, sans snow, leaving us an icy layer to attempt to play on.… Read the rest
The CHOP CHOP CHOP of a helicopter’s blades signal the end is near. After five days of running, mountain biking, kayaking and rock scrambling in the Persian Gulf, teams are finally approaching the finish line of the Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge.
To add drama to this photo opp, event organizers… Read the rest
Congratulations to Tim Patterson for being a runner up in our Traveling by Alternative Transportation Contest! Read this great story from Tim’s trip across Quebec on a folding bike, for which he wins some sweet lights and even an alternative transportation t-shirt from Planet Bike.… Read the rest
Pig Headed
Somewhere between Montreal
At Wend we truly believe that adventure should be synonymous with activism; if we don’t work to protect where we play how will we be able to keep returning to those places? We support people that climb to the tops of mountains, sail to the edges of the world, and… Read the rest
Congratulations to Joshua Johnson for winning our Traveling by Alternative Transportation Contest! As Joshua says “My body is my alternate means of travel, it is the perfect off road vehicle! I can hike, climb, swing, skip, bike and in this instance swim!” Fro his very Wend story, Joshua scores a … Read the rest
