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Lois' Adventure Travel Blog October 2006 Archive

By Lois Friedland, About.com Guide to Adventure Travel

"Flicka" Reveals Wyoming’s Expansive Horseback Riding Ranges

Saturday October 28, 2006
Last week’s opening of Flicka, a PG-rated movie about a 16-year-old girl who spies, befriends and trains a wild horse, also put Wyoming’s scenic open ranges on the big screen. ... Read More

How to Start Scuba Diving

Wednesday October 25, 2006
Our globe is comprised of more than 70 percent water, so learning how to start scuba diving lets adventurous travelers explore a whole new world. Scuba diving alongside coral ... Read More

Three Climbers Summit Mt. Everest Then Ski Lhotse Face

Sunday October 22, 2006
Adventure travel has a unique meaning for three extreme skiers, Kit and Rob DesLauriers and Jimmy Chin, who last week skied down the bullet-proof snow on Mt. Everest’s Lhotse Face. ... Read More

Tell Us Your Favorite Adventure Travel Destinations

Thursday October 19, 2006
Where are the top five adventure travel destinations you'd love to visit? What would you like to do while there? Does scuba diving in a coral underwater garden ... Read More

New Adventure Travel Trips

Monday October 16, 2006
The 2007 catalogue of new adventure travel trips with unusual twists and activities is now online at the Smithsonian Journeys website. If the trips themselves aren't enough to ... Read More

Seeking Remote Sites? View Colca Canyon's Giant Condors

Thursday October 12, 2006
Here’s a picture gallery showing the weather-beaten faces of locals carrying huge baskets of grain on their backs, a fragile bridge crossing the river that flows through the second deepest ... Read More

Seacology’s Island Expeditions for Active and Armchair Travelers

Monday October 9, 2006
Seacology’s island expeditions are “win-win” for travelers and local communities. Scuba divers, especially, are vying to join the island expeditions, but armchair travelers can go there too via travel dispatches ... Read More

Giant Condors Fly in Peru’s Colca Canyon

Friday October 6, 2006
Life in Peru’s Colca Canyon moves along at a pace set in pre-Inca times. The giant condors who fly in the updrafts swirling around this two-mile deep canyon, the second ... Read More

Tips for Planning an Ecotourism Trip

Tuesday October 3, 2006
Padding quietly through the jungle to the tuneless screech of macaws, until the snort of a wild pig alerts you it's about to run across the path in front of ... Read More
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