I fish the waters around Durango, Colorado regularly. Those waters include one of my favorites, East Fork of Hermosa Creek. But for some reason I always pass a beautiful, narrow stretch of the upper Hermosa as I forge ahead to my regular stomping grounds further behind the ski resort and on into the canyon. This [...]
Fit Tourist: Orange County
August 30, 2011 By 62 Comments
by Erin Belair Coming to Orange County for a vacation? One thing you will not find here is an excuse to not workout. With year round sun and incredible weather there are an endless array of workouts and reasons to get in gear. These are a few of the best spots to see and workout [...]
Fit Tourist: New York City
August 10, 2011 By 72 Comments
Heading to the concrete jungle for a visit and wondering how you’re going to get your workout in? No problem. Here are a few suggestions from locals about workouts you definitely shouldn’t miss while you’re in the Big Apple (and we’ve given you two options for each workout, the basic and the more involved, depending [...]
Kosrae: The Mysterious Paradise Island
July 25, 2011 By 3 Comments
Of course Kosrae’s unofficial storyteller stutters. At least when he speaks English, which he learned — and is still learning, he says — completely from tourists visiting this 42-square mile primordial, volcanic blip hundreds of miles from the next nearest landfall in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Few things on this island, one of [...]
Give Back & Make a Difference
July 1, 2011 By 4 Comments
After a wonderful weekend on Maui participating in OluKai’s 3rd Annual Ho’olaule’a, I was able to experience a day of giving back that I had never done before. Each year, OluKai partners with Maui Cultural Lands to spend a day in the Honokowai Valley doing reforesting work to preserve the area in hopes of restoring [...]
Legacy
June 27, 2011 By 12 Comments
Mark points out a big flash of silver among the rippled waters. “He’s a big one,” I hear him shout over the roar of the river. I’m in the canyon, downstream from Fred’s Bluff, just me against the fish. Adrenaline pulses through my body as I pull line from my reel and rhythmically cast to [...]
Training at Tranquilo Bay
June 15, 2011 By 2 Comments
by Renee Kimball | In reality, creating Tranquilo Bay has been very similar to an athlete’s training. An athlete is a person who trains for sports requiring mental and physical strength… more »
Travel, Fish and Immerse
February 3, 2011 By 8 Comments
by Amy Becker Williams, Featured Athlete | Mariano Cruz sat across from me, all five-foot four of him, Roman nose, dark skin, sallow eyes. He ate a chunk of smoked duck breast, licked his fingers, took a gulp of red wine and gave us a gentle smile. My husband, Mark, and I were on the front-end of a fly-fishing trip along the spine of the Pyrenees straddling Spain and France…
Snow Angels
December 28, 2010 By 10 Comments
by Mary DeLaney, Featured Athlete | I woke up this morning thinking about snow angels. Then my mind quickly went to my “to do” list. This time of year we can get so caught up in doing this, going there, making another something, mailing one more package, that we forget the magic of this season…
Travel + Active Play + Giving Back = Kuséwera!
November 15, 2010 By 2 Comments
by Karen Osborn, Kuséwera Founder | I’ve always enjoyed travel, being active and volunteering… but when I visited the children at Mtendere Village Orphanage in Malawi, Africa in 2008, my life changed forever. I realized the ability to be able to combine all three of these things…
