BIG ISLAND HAWAII, by Larry Turner

Had I known more about the Big Island, Hawaii, I would have gone a long time ago. I had plenty of offerings and invitations but I passed them up, oddly, as I thought the island was more like the Oahu/ Honolulu scene.....more

THE MAORI: LIFE IN THE RING OF FIRE, by Vicki Hoefling Andersen
In 1886 the Rotorua region was stunned by the eruption of Mt. Tarawera. The entire length of the mountain ridge was ablaze in a gigantic sheet of fire. The eventual eruption rift covered a ten-mile chain of 21 craters along the mountain top. Ash rose nearly seven miles into the sky and blanketed almost 5,800 square miles, destroying seven small villages and nearly 120 lives....more

LUCKY SEVENS IN TAHOE: Seven ski areas in seven days, by Lee Juillerat

After a 12-mile boat ride across Lake Tahoe—and how many people, especially in winter, travel on the lake?—we retrieved our skis, booted up, disembarked, strolled across Highway 89 and hopped onto the Madden Triple Chair at Homewood....more

ANYTHING WORTH DOING and THE ADVENTURER'S GUIDE TO A HAPPY LIFE, two adventure book reviews by Lynn Rosen
 
Only a handful of brave and crazy souls have run the entire 409-mile length of the Salmon. Reece and Barker continued down the Snake and Columbia Rivers to the Pacific....more

TED AND TONY'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURES, by Ted and Sylvia Blishak

Our objective today was to utilize six modes of Bay Area transit systems in order to have lunch at the Top of the Mark, that well known restaurant and bar atop the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel at the crest of Nob Hill in San Francisco....more

It Didn't Get Away! Ossie's Oregon Fish Story, as told to Les Furnanz

Like most of my fellow ospreys on Oregon's Tualatin River, I find the canoe and kayak paddlers to be a real pain in the tail feathers. Know what I mean? They get in the way of our fishing. Cheep, Cheep!....more

CASTLE MOUNTAIN RESORT, ALBERTA by Yvette Cardozo
 
No cell service, sketchy internet service ... but twice the snowfall of Lake Louise ... and hardly a body, especially on weekdays when maybe 600 people show up to revel in Castle's 2,400 skiable acres....more

AN "EXPERIMENTAL" FLIGHT by Steve Giordano
 
"I know you're interested in scenic stuff, but I gotta tell ya there's nothing more scenic than an airplane ride. We can do what you want, but I've got a little plane and I just love to fly...''...more

ON SAFARI IN TANZANIA by Sally McKinney
 
I tell Walter I want to go dancing in Africa. Since this request comes from a 77-year-old woman who’s joking around, I’m not sure he takes my request seriously....more