Tagged: Adventure

Getting Around: Erden Eruc

Getting Around: Erden Eruc

There’s something special about a person who can completely step away from their day to day job and do something incredible. What defines incredible is up to you, but we’d say completing a self-propelled circumnavigation of the globe fits the description. That’s just what ex-software engineer Erden Eruc did for 1,026 days and 37,472 miles [...]

Meet Ed Viesturs

Meet Ed Viesturs

As it gets colder outside, most of us retreat to thick socks and turning up the thermostat. But not Ed Viesturs. While we’re nestled under two wool blankets and a cat on our lap, Ed is typically somewhere in the world at least 26,000 feet above our heads – where it’s really cold. Ed is [...]

By Raft Across the South Seas

By Raft Across the South Seas

On April 28, 1947, a handmade raft constructed of balsa trunks, hemp rope and bamboo, departed from Callao, Peru and headed west into the Pacific via the Humboldt current. The raft was destined for the Polynesian Islands in hopes to show that a vessel made of similar materials and technologies could have allowed the people [...]

West America

West America

So there are these two dudes that live in Portland, Oregon. One’s name is Jordan Hufnagel who started Hufnagel Cycles (a really awesome bicycle company), and the other is James Crowe of Crowe Metal Co. Both of these dudes work under the same roof in the same fabrication shop where not only do they spend [...]