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Looking for the perfect summer getaway? Teva® is giving away the experience of a lifetime at the ninth annual Teva Mountain Games, June 3–6, in Vail, Colo. The Teva House sweepstakes, featuring roundtrip tickets to Vail and an invitation to be a guest at the Teva House, is now officially open to anyone looking to add a little adventure into their everyday experiences.

Adventurer Lei Wang departs in less than 2 weeks to make an attempt on Everest. Born in Beijing, she says that she grew up as a typical city girl. She graduated with a B.S degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University in Beijing followed by an M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After working in the IT field for several years, she decided to pursue her M.B.A. degree at Wharton. It was there that she was first introduced to ice climbing and mountaineering and climbed her first glacier mountain in Ecuador (Cotopaxi). Upon graduation, she traveled to Africa where she reached the summit of Kilimanjaro.

Enter online for your chance to win a trip for two this fall to mountain bike with 3-time reigning 24-hour solo mountain biking world champion, Rebecca Rusch. It is time to dial up the training in the basement until I can get out on the trails to prepare in the event that I win this great opportunity.

I have spent my life playing sports. A product of the American Midwest, my youth is best remembered as an athletic menagerie of freshwater lakes, kayaks, canoes, cliffs, campsites, forests and fields of grass as green as any gracing the Irish countryside.

I grew up playing organized football – the proper ‘football’, not the American bastardization of the beautiful game – basketball, tennis, golf and whatever else I could do. I have splished and splashed in a good percentage of Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes, traversed the tributaries of the mighty Mississippi and camped, climbed and competed in her pine forests for most of my life.

Here is a sample of the images taken at The Coastal Challenge 2010.

2010 marks the 7th edition of the Huairasinchi Adventure Race. It is also a member of the AR World Series (Check out our 2010 AR World Series Preview on Huairasinchi).

Huairasinchi (pronounced War-uh-sin-chee), meaning the ’strength of the wind’ takes place in the high country of Ecuador and is the highest adventure race on the planet.

Do you remember the first time you crossed a finish line? Was it a Marathon, Adventure Race, or Ironman? Maybe it was crossing a finish line for a charity run? No matter what race or how long it took, you always remember the first time you crossed that line…

As AW covers the upcoming all-women off-road rally raid, the Rallye Aicha des Gazelles we decided to catch up with a team of first-time competitors to get a glimse of their perspective on this unique évent and take a look as they prepare for the unknown.

Mountain Hardwear announces the recipients of the 2010 Expedition Sponsorship Program. Mountain Hardwear will give total of $10,000 to help fund five 2010 expeditions.

Flatter terrain and cooler weather made for a faster course on the third stage of the Coastal Challenge Tuesday morning, allowing for Judith Abbot (Canada) to lengthen her lead in the women’s division.

With a strong finish on day one and taking first place on day two, Abbot is poised for her first adventure race win.

American Ty Stevens overtakes third place, increases lead on day two of The Coastal Challenge

Despite heavy overnight rains making for tough muddied trails and more than 12,000 feet of elevation change, Ty Stevens (USA) took a hefty lead over fourth place runner Victor Zuniga (CRC).

Two-time champion Javier Montero of Costa Rica is in position to take an unprecedented third win after stage one of The Coastal Challenge, a six-day adventure race in Costa Rica.

While un-matched in the previous two races, Montero will have his toughest challenge yet with newcomer and local Costa Rican Ceasar Ortega. Ortega trailed Montero by less than three minutes by the end of the stage with a finishing time of 02:41:45.

At 1300hrs on the 18! th January 2010, after 60 days and 1700km, professional explorer, adventurer and speaker Mark Kalch completed a solo trek across the Islamic Republic of Iran from its northern border on the Caspian Sea to its southerly border in the Persian Gulf. Beginning in the coastal city of Chalus, he crossed the Alborz Mountains heading south to the capital Tehran, before continuing south-west to Qom, Esfahan, through the Zagros Mountains, and onto the Persian Gulf at Bushehr.

Another crucial piece of technical gear to tote with you? You might be skeptical at first, but only long enough until you pop open your GoLite Chrome Dome and find shelter from the rain or shine.

Whether bike touring, trekking, adventure racing, or event just running errands around the city, you will wonder how you ever got along without a technical umbrella. The biggest surprise I found was

Some photos highlighting the opening ceremoney of the
7 Cerros Medellin Urban Adventure Race and initial day of the race.

Having traveled all over the world and being the consummate observer of human behavior, I have developed a list of travel tips that can make your next trip less stressful and more enjoyable with a little planning before your departure.

• Luggage: I can’t begin to recount the times that I have watched people at the baggage carousel perusing each black rolling bag that comes of the belt only to discover it is not their luggage.

Facing the Wind: Three Argentine kayakers are making their final push to Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world. Upon arrival they will have cycled (while towing their sea kayaks behind) 650 kilometers from the …

In an official move to streamline operations of their experiential and immersive running expeditions, the creators of The Coastal Challenge (TCC) today announced a new name and sponsorship platform for 2010. The now-titled TCC Adventures provides a unique community-driven platform for more targeted sponsorship opportunities throughout its array of international off-road running races.

When it comes to mountain biking in British Columbia, Canada most people hear about the trails around the North Shore in North Vancouver and the trails and bike park in Whistler. However, taking a 1.5 hour ferry ride over to Vancouver Island is well worth the trip with most of the trails being within 1.5 hours of Nanaimo.

What is it that makes adventure racing, at its core, completely different from other sports such as triathlon, or ultrarunning, or rogaining, or 24 hour mountain biking? There are a lot of sports out there that share aspects of AR – in terms of being off-road and adventurous, and involving multiple disciplines, and in requiring strategy and navigation skills.

I’d argue that the one thing that really makes AR unique is the team aspect of it. Not a relay team, not a cumulative-times kind of team, but a team that must stick together no matter what, and problem-solve in order to keep all members united and moving forward as quickly and as efficiently as possible.

I’ve found that the word “Baja” holds different meaning for everyone who hears you might be going. For some it mean’s fast off-road 4×4 racing through the desert. Others think of tequila and Cabo San Lucas. Still others simply think it’s just that deserted land strip past Tijuana. What most don’t know about the area is that lying between the mainland of Mexico and the Baja peninsula is one of the most biologically diverse bodies of water on our planet, the Sea of Cortez.

Travel Clothing, always a subject of debate, there is loads of info out there to inform you that this product or that product is great and has an SPF factor to protect you. A few things, I have tried major manufacturers ” travel clothing”, most of which I am still trying to sell or give away. Who wants to look like a walking advertisement mistaken for an ATM? We already carry cameras that make us look like we work for National Geographic (or want to) , so wearing a nice yellow or green pair of pants just doesn’t fit the bill.

Planning for a trip is almost as good as actually going on one. The devil is in the details, as they say, but if you are a gear junkie like me, it’s actually quite fun to put together your arsenal for a pending adventure.

We are five souls, scattered across mountain towns in the US, coming together for a ski expedition into the unknowns of the Andes Mountains. Our team’s hope is to climb and ski some high peaks (upwards of 7200m), but you never really know. Weather, mountain conditions, health, and human interaction all have a say in the outcome, so flexibility is most important.