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HIGH ON ADVENTURE, the adventure travel magazine 
Feature stories and photoessays for the Adventurous Traveler
Back issues @ Travel Destinations
JANUARY/FEBRUARY, 2020 Vol 24 , No. 1 (OUR 24TH YEAR!)  
Lynn Rosen, Content Editor; Steve Giordano, Web Editor

 

Dad on his new bike at age 74

 

 

Barbados elder scuba diving

 

 

June Mountain bar treats for dogs

 
 

JOY OF CYCLING PART 3
At age 74 my father got his first new bicycle

by Steve Giordano



 

ELDER SCUBA DIVING IN BARBADOS
by Yvette Cardozo







SKIING THE SWITZERLAND OF CALIFORNIA, JUNE MOUNTAIN
California's Family Mountain

by Larry Turner


 
 

"You're going to die someday, but it won't be of a heart attack,'' said the doctor after going over all the stress and medical test results. ``Go ahead and ride the damned thing, but
take it easy on the hills."









I like warm water. I realized along the way that shallow (say 60 feet or so) dives not only give you more time but usually have better life to see. So when I recently went to Barbados, I talked to a couple of dive operators about “elder” divers.


 



June Mountain is a throwback, hearkening to earlier years of skiing/boarding as opposed to most contemporary resorts. There is a timeless purity about June, even with its modern lifts, that will always have a place in the snowsport world.

 
 

 

 

 

Fat tire snow biking

Wales, Arthur Coetan

 


Mexico EDZNA

 


SNOW: THE MAGICAL INGREDIENT
by Vicki Hoefling Andersen


TALES OF TRAILS IN WALES
Snowdon, Waterfalls, Coast and Castles

by Lee Juillerat

 

EXPLORING MEXICO’S RICHEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL REGION
by Habeeb Salloum, M.S.M.

 







Snow isn’t actually white. A snow crystal’s surface is faceted which creates hundreds of tiny prisms which refract the light into all colors of the spectrum and reflect back to our eyes as white.



Some people believe Snowdon Mountain was the home and burial place of King Arthur and that his legendary sword, Excalibur, remains in a nearby lake.



 

 



How the Mayans built these once rich urban centres and developed a rich civilization erected on the knowledge of advanced astronomy and other sciences remains somewhat of a mystery.



  Taking pics at U of C

 

Tbilisi Dedeana Park





 


 
  AWAY IS HOME: BEST CAMERA FOR A FAMILY VACATION
by Christopher Elliott


THE SIGHTS IN TBILISI - REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA

by Brad Hathaway

BOOST SURFING E-FIN
Power into surfing with this 11-mph electric motor

by Steve Giordano



 
 


Because I spent 16 years at National Geographic, people often ask me: What's the best camera for a family vacation? Then I have to deliver the good news and the bad news.
 








 


Whimsy seems to be highly valued in the public art of Tbilisi. A jazz club has a saxophonist embedded in the wall of their building and even the bollards on Rustaveli Avenue demonstrate a sense of humor.


 




There are an estimated 35 million surfers worldwide, but surfing is one of the most physically demanding sports around; most surfers only get about 8% ride time, spending a majority of their time paddling or lining up for waves.






 



 

     


     
 

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