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Photographer. World Traveler & Constant Adventurer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1468094159530-GSZC1S3BJ5B5ZPFNOKI4/FrontPageCollageStart5.jpg Andrew Slough - Writer. Photographer. World Traveler & Constant Adventurer http://mensadventuretravel.com/adventures/gallery daily 0.75 2026-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1468084306828-WE4X8PPNDNU2QU41J399/andrew-silver-nikolka.jpg Adventures Gallery - Kamchatka, Russia, Flyfishing the Nikolka Two hundred miles north of Petropavlovsk, the salmon appear in late August. Starting as a whisper, their numbers rapidly grow in volume until the river pulses with Silvers, Chums, Sockeye and Kings flooding agains the current. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1468084306828-WE4X8PPNDNU2QU41J399/andrew-silver-nikolka.jpg Adventures Gallery - Kamchatka, Russia, Flyfishing the Nikolka Two hundred miles north of Petropavlovsk, the salmon appear in late August. Starting as a whisper, their numbers rapidly grow in volume until the river pulses with Silvers, Chums, Sockeye and Kings flooding agains the current. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1577749336573-BY5U9CXXXQS0AVKVZDUF/Squires+Silva+Targhee.jpg Adventures Gallery - Grand Targhee, Wyoming, The White Room It appeared as if an enormous pillow had split a seam and dumped a million tons of prime goose down on Targhee’s glades, bowls, gullies and back country extreme. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1639858447950-DD79GR286QUCWZLOUG75/image.png Adventures Gallery - Mürren, Switzerland, Surviving The Inferno He has been knocked unconscious and now moves like wet liver, slithering around moguls, pausing on the odd flats between them before seeking the next gutter and sliding around the next mogul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466878819421-N7UQ3NPJQVKF0QRMGFU3/horsepack-into-grizzly.jpg Adventures Gallery - Big Sky, Montana, Grizzly Lake Pepper Spray is a witch’s brew of ground cayenne and propellants guaranteed to make ursus horriblus wish he’d never laid eyes on homo sapien. “Use in short, timed bursts,” the instructions read. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1578175005455-4SK3W1GJZ6BCD681JIMW/Silver+Whiite+Room.jpg Adventures Gallery - Okanagan Valley, Canada, Silver Star Mountain Resort Over the years I’ve had heard myths of snorkel deep powder but, having never personally skied it, I was convinced that snorkels were simply sight gags––props photographers employ to make a foot of powder imitate five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466877836822-NN6GQM1EHT5JKI3X9GLO/hilliard-bataan-death-ride-3.jpg Adventures Gallery - Sun Valley, Idaho, The Bataan Death Ride To ride the Bataan, you need big guns–buttocks like cannonballs, hamstrings as thick as bridge cables, cordwood for thighs and massive striated calves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1576557232019-724LVXTOMYD8ALJU6FH7/image.png Adventures Gallery - Flims Laax, Switzerland, The White Arena Why Flims? Or, for that matter, why Switzerland? Because there is something about Switzerland’s vertical Alps, crystalline air, chiming church bells and incredible skiing that leaves you touched by magic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1577237829252-J0W6NHZYWBLYB079RNYU/Mark+Robert+Bumps.jpg Adventures Gallery - Chamonix, France, Vallee Blanche It worries me that Robert, my thirteen-year old son, has no fear. Studying the Aiguille du Midi's forbidding blue ice and black rock north wall from the sixty person tram skims, he does not blink when Mark Jones tells him, “People ski that!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1724464873794-7IXNJ31KZA1HFKSZ29WY/image-asset.jpeg Adventures Gallery - California's Grand Motorcycle Tour Only 16 at the time, I was hypnotized by the scene in which McQueen steals a Triumph from a German soldier and tries to flee to Switzerland. It did not matter that the Triumph was a Brit bike, or that McQueen eventually slids into a barbed wire fence. From that point on I was obsessed with bikes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1468361166315-A8OOBI45KVVDHEW17LUF/Dombai+Powder+Morning.jpg Adventures Gallery - Altay Mountains, Russia, Deep Powder Days, Vodka Nights The storm raged through the night and dawn rose to a vaulted blue sky and four inches of fresh powder. The conditions will haunt my dreams, but dampening that joy is the realization that each turn counts a minute until I must leave. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1576087692820-LA2AQ75AQQLUPA6CXGKL/Baldy+Glades.jpg Adventures Gallery - The Seven Citadels, Romania, Search For Count Dracula From Bucharest to the Castle Bran to the Tihuta Pass, I discovered Dracula in the sound of footsteps in the Seven Citadel’s locked towers and in the wet shine of fresh blood spilled across white marble steps at the Golden Crown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1586127348049-7WBNS87JFYYTIEH2IP0O/Skinning+to+Camp.jpg Adventures Gallery - Glen Plake and Darren Johnson escape into the Sierras I watch Glen and Darren boot up a narrow, north-facing chute to the 13,330-foot summit of Mount Emerson. A camera cannot capture the forty-five degree pitch or the width or length of this chute. 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Cordoba, Argentina, Doves, Trout, Tango & Polo We come to the dove blinds by way of a dusty dirt road that passes small, stuccoed farmhouses where sleeping hogs litter the front yard, horses sleep on their feet in poor corrals and gauchos push cattle off the road to allow us to pass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466726642887-E8HCLS5XMLUJH92UO68D/Argentina-296.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Cordoba, Argentina, Doves, Trout, Tango & Polo We come to the dove blinds by way of a dusty dirt road that passes small, stuccoed farmhouses where sleeping hogs litter the front yard, horses sleep on their feet in poor corrals and gauchos push cattle off the road to allow us to pass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466878520519-IAF57JFF4BJGH4SPD7LN/White-Water2.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Salmon River, Idaho, White Water, Steelhead and Chukars It was early afternoon when we climbed into the Mackenzie boats below White Bird. Tying on Wee Worts and Hot Shots we were still within sight of the launch ramp when Mick’s rod suddenly arced toward the dark water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466877649504-CUVXDPXYIY7QTNSYJAU3/bristlecone-pine-12.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Elko, Nevada, Bristle Cone Pines For tens of thousands of years, altitude and isolation helped protect the Snake Range’s Bristlecones. Then, in 1964, while studying the last ice age on 13,000 foot Wheeler Peak, a University of North Carolina doctoral candidate broke his boring tool in what back packers called the Prometheus Tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466879571537-9JY86O1WFQVO8O4UCW0J/helicopter-against-denali.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Tordrillo Mountains, Alaska, Kings and Corn Studied from the helicopter, the warm morning sun has ripened corn snow across two hundred and fifty thousand acres of bowls, chutes, ridges, glaciers and cliffs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466879389040-DOFP2O33QOGUS2EEL8RK/arnold-above-sun-valley-idaho-2.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Sun Valley, Idaho, Skiing with Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Schwarzenegger on skis is a force of nature. It is his expression that speaks volumes–the Terminator’s single-minded sense of purpose that refines the image of a 225 pound, six foot two, granite boulder bouncing from edge to edge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1624495929604-MOXSFTWWR44J3MI3RK1Z/image-asset.png Adventures Gallery 2 - Hemingway's Final Years in Ketchum Idaho During the winter of 1974, Hemingway’s impact on literature and writers had yet to be fully realized. The tourists had yet to leave Cuban cigars, empty shell cases, or glasses of red wine on his grave in the Ketchum Cemetery. The Nature Conservancy had yet to purchase The Hemingway house that overlooked the swimming hole upstream from the Warm Springs Bridge but now sat empty and haunted beneath a leaking roof. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466879514321-4WNEFJ9RM6CU2IGQ798B/guide-and-client-on-castor-1.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Zermatt, Switzerland, A Morning On The Matterhorn Zermatt’s Matterhorn has gained a reputation as somethlng of a walkup, an exhilarating hike to 4500 meters. As recognizable as our own Statue of liberty, its profile dominates ads for watches, cars, butter, jam, chocolate and cheese. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1627493680662-L87X4T0A61Y98SV29YUY/Manfred+Lorenz+Trees+1.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Hemingway In Schruns “……there was a great glacier run,” Hemingway wrote. “forever straight if our legs could hold it, our ankles locked, we running so low, leaning into the speed, dropping forever and forever in the silent hiss of the crisp powder. It was better than anything else.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466878649386-CFMBZ814YU6Z5N4UMVB1/Andy-Kamchatka-Mutnovsky_2_21.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Kamchatka, Russia, Heliskiing Vilyuchensky I still can’t say what possessed me to climb into an aging Aeroflot M1-8 helicopter with 23 Russian skiers, their skis, packs, a case of vodka and 650 gallons of AV gas. As Vilyuchensky, one of Kamchatka’s hundred plus volcanoes rapidly expands beneath the starboard wheel, I hope that Alexander the pilot aced his last check ride. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1724429503108-GGJKKP4XUUZGSJTTYN0A/image-asset.jpeg Adventures Gallery 2 - Cortina Italy On The Trail of Hemingway On the Corso Italia, the passeggiata is drifting languidly past the storefronts filled with bright ski suits, gold jewelry, books, film and postcards depicting Cortina draped in heavy snow. This evening ritual provides a fitting stage to meet Cortina’s beautiful people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466878709900-J1LMEM6HAXCT7HORAYSF/la-meije-skier2.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - La Grave, France, The Magic of La Meije The road to La Grave is sheltered by concrete sheds and stoplights to restrict travel when avalanches drain from distant and unseen cirques. More than the slides, however, it is La Meije’s extreme, unpatrolled terrain that discourages all but the crampon and guide pack crowd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466877908486-7B5BVF9OL4VM3BNQYN83/bronco-headed-to-canyon4.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Western Drought Devastates Idaho Fishery I wonder, in the scheme of a state budget, if trout are less valuable than forests? It takes years to grow a big rainbow and a helicopter with a bucket could easily fly the breeders to nearby spring fed streams. But the Fish and Game is as stressed as the fish and need to balance the cost of helicopters against the loss of these big fish, their public relations value and the number of tourist dollars they bring to Idaho. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1574830172173-Z5LI1DCVNMZ8KWZ42HCB/image.png Adventures Gallery 2 - Rodeoing on the Fourth of July He did not know why he found it more comfortable to sleep with his hands raised to the ceiling. A doctor claimed his shoulders had been separated then separated again until they now slid in and out of their socket like worn eight balls at a Gooding pool tournament https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466879487642-7KN1H10TM9G2O5VTR6R5/andy-nufenen-21.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Andermatt, Switzerland, 4 Passes, 106 Miles, 16,000 Vertical Feet Knees have always been a cyclist’s nemesis, the weakest link in a dependable power train. Like a pitcher’s shoulder, or a runner’s hamstrings, when knees fail…game over. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1574810604221-BJ4KR9FOSZBYV0BJJ2E5/Andy+and+Steelhead+Buck+1.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Olympic Peninsula, Washington, Twenty Plus Pound Steelhead We did not expect to catch anything that early morning in January. The guides who met us in a greasy spoon couldn’t promise we’d get a bite, much less land a fish, but they were willing to try if we’d be ok waiting for a fight that might never come. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1597592439457-E55IBUBQJB0VVXE1D0ZX/Mount+Tasman+from+Fox.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - The Grand Divide, New Zealand, Death on the Fox Dave Ashby’s future beckoned from the knife edge ridge of New Zealand’s Grand Divide. To reach it, he needed to navigate through the Fox Glacier’s labyrinthian crevasses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466879248120-JZGFEC356ERC54WS02ED/Jim-Hodge-in-Millet2.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Pierre, South Dakota, Pheasant Hunting A flash of yellow squirted through the grass and I am blistered by the acrid stench of burning tires. Other than profanity, there is no describing the skunk’s blindingly strong smell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1778090090253-IQOOGZPDKDAFRIRI46AG/Andrew-Robert-Deer-Hunt.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Sun Valley, Idaho, The Truth About Rattlesnakes “When you hear this rattle again, turn around and walk carefully away.” I told the boys, who begged me to grab the old rattler and stuff it in the cooler. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1574836205235-8W3I58Q1ZQP4HGFSGKY5/image.png Adventures Gallery 2 - Haleiwa, Hawaii, Samurai Fighting Cocks Koa and Makaha traced their ancestry to Kaimana, Hawaii’s first Royal Rooster. The shining black Cock had finished his second molt when he was taken from the King’s farm on the Marquesa’s island of Nuka Hiva and caged aboard a seagoing canoe for the perilous voyage north. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1576189136928-9OAPMOQR9HTO76RU83WK/image.png Adventures Gallery 2 - Sun Valley, Idaho, Earl Holding Earl Holding had given three interviews in fifteen years. I figured there would be little or no chance he’d sit down for a fourth. When my land line rang on a late winter day, I didn’t recognize the voice. “Wally said you’re a straight arrow.” Earl Holding greeted me. While I tried to maintain a journalistic distance, in all honesty, I was flattered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466878982024-KXY8S125U2K8VN42A4H3/Sawmill-Maserati-Abused1.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Ottawa, Canada, Maserati 3200GT Stirling Moss, who raced Maseratis in the 1950s and ’60s, said “I only know about cars and women………..and I can’t see one thing bad about this car.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1468084222748-OUI1QMDX499S9ZBDAMBT/Ivan-Casey-Steep-and-Deep.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - White Mountains, Arizona, Apache Sunrise This is not what I expected from Arizona. Not snakes in caves, or war shirts with power or snow that blows over your head. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1724357046998-KS3RSKTKJUCW82Z75ZKA/Greeting+the+Dawn%2C+Lower+Salmon.jpeg Adventures Gallery 2 - Steelhead and Chukar Partridge, Salmon River Idaho Line poured off the level wind reel as, thirty feet downstream, a steelhead tumbled across the surface in frantic splashes of rose and silver. Watching Dan pump and reel, it seemed a miracle that this steelhead had crossed eleven dams in its 1,000-mile migration from the Pacific. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1574828870280-9BVKT6TE8TA3UCJ8GZ5X/image.png Adventures Gallery 2 - Ottawa, Canada, Monster Muskellunge Muskies are ambush fish and, as such, are both extremely territorial and cannibalistic. The biggest defend clear, quiet water filled with submerged weed beds, sunken stumps and logs. Lying in wait for hours, they’ll attack fish, frogs, snakes, mammals, ducks or, less often, feet and hands that are carelessly dangled off boats and docks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466878753154-DTM3DST2L7RXEZGNEX2L/Claude-Leblanc-Beaver-1.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Northern Lights Fishing Lodge, Labrador, Golden Speckles Standing on a boulder in the middle of a nameless river that swirls like hot oil, I am surrounded by rising Speckles–brilliant, broad backed fish that, until this moment have never seen a dry fly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1575934603571-P47W2V7WWMQHD7MR5OC2/Hunting+Silver+Creek.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - San Francisco Bay, California, Len's Model 11 Decades of salt air exposure had painted a patina of rust over the Model 11’s original bluing. The stock was scarred and loose, the forearm checkering was worn and the rubber recoil pad was brittle with age. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466877764808-DMN6HYEU7DJ75T9JJMNA/Robert-Above-Round-House-12.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Sun Valley, Idaho, Bald Mountain’s Big Shoulders Watching the unbroken snow rise to meet me, I realize that much of my adult life has been defined by Bald Mountain. Without the influence of expert runs that plunge from its broad ridges, I might have spent my life in the pursuit of more worldly, but far less rewarding goals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466878338647-79PS41XBHGHQS8UCWWH7/Evening-Rise-1.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Sun Valley, Idaho, Mouse Flies in the Moonlight The moon is said to affect the blood in the same way it pulls at the tides and I wonder if, while finning beneath the dark over hung bank, Browns feel the same quickening, that betrays a need to breed and feed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1575867083072-G4BIP313KVAQTYIN6D1Z/Storm+From+Dorris+Cessna.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - McCall, Idaho, Mike Dorris Backcountry Pilot Turbulent winds sweeping Salmon Ranch’s rock cliffs have downgraded the short dirt strip into a dicey uphill landing and as he lowers the flaps for final approach, the horses stampede toward the far fence line, the plane flashes over the river, Dorris cuts the throttle and we sink. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466879533242-I0ZO066A23RNSL9C5Q8Y/robert-jones-grenz-1.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Zermatt, Cervina, Alagna, Switzerland & Italy, Circumnavigating The Monte Rosa Robert is fearless…a fact that concerns me when I think about the skier who died today on the Gornergletscher. Witnesses reported he was twenty feet away, linking turns on a gentle, sunlit slope when the powder suddenly collapsed into an enormous blue cavern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466877969480-CLM9PS0Y1DMD4H62BQZW/andrew-alone-1.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Cambridge, Idaho, Hiking Hell's Canyon From a distance Suicide Point resembles an outlaw’s weathered face. Disfigured by the trail’s gray scar running across nose, cheek and jaw, in September’s 100 degree heat, its 800 vertical feet serves as the last major barrier to Gracie Bar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1575087686252-LPX61UTNNE04JS05Z3OC/Jack+Russell+1.JPG Adventures Gallery 2 - Shoshone, Idaho, Jack Russell Terrorists Rock. The man liked the name. Defined by hard consonants with the barest nod to a minor vowel, the Jack’s name conjured a short, tough, light middleweight who could take a punch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1574806627385-KBNVB3LWYE971T62CJEA/image.png Adventures Gallery 2 - Mountain Home, Idaho, The Bruneau River The Bruneau most resembles a punch drunk prize fighter of the same name, staggering across Southern Idaho’s high desert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1596496987609-OWK87G2RVMTLF7JVV7QB/image-asset.jpeg Adventures Gallery 2 - Smithers British Columbia: Remembering Gary Brettnacher Photographer Gary Brettnacher introduced me to British Columbia’s deep powder and wild Steelhead. It’s a gift that continues to haunt me forty years later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1577476230070-O0Y3OW6IIR6LNJRMFD5V/Robert%2BMoguls.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Sun Valley, Idaho, The Cost of Competition Torrential rains followed a series of deep powder storms. When the rains stopped, temperatures plunged to ten below locking Sun Valley's Bald Mountain beneath a glistening layer of boilerplate. By race day, the course amounted to five hundred vertical feet of ice bumps divided by a slick zipper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1588892835685-0Y9UPHUHFPG3L1GU4IQN/Dad+Far+Blind+5.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - The Far Blind At night after the dishes were cleared, the old duck hunters sat and reminisced about other seasons when the north winds blew or the fogs shrouded the rice fields and the ducks piled into the decoys for reasons known only to mallards and widgeon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1468084436157-1H98P0UMAZ7VQIMMO8NP/Highway-89a.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Highway 49, Gold Country, California, El Niño It is the first week of March and everything from plagues of rats, locusts and killer bees to smog, cyclones and black ice is being blamed on El Nino. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1468361011781-1GQ87KTF7DS7098UJQ7E/Red-Jacketed-Beauty-Sun-Valley.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Sun Valley, Idaho, Major Storm Predicted Prior to December 25, 2019 a major dump amounted to two feet in two days. Not two feet in eight hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1576191171208-LADD7YO36V4XYWV19G47/Roenar+Carlson+Isafordour+1.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Isafjordur, Iceland, Skiing The Chute When high pressure builds over Greenland and low pressure stalls south of Iceland the resulting collision explodes above the West Fjords in a blizzard that crushes visibility and punches avalanche warnings into the red zone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466879337566-PR29WJ7Z2RJ3ZAK41RSO/drift-boat-beach.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Sawtooth Valley, Idaho, Middle Fork of the Salmon When a quarter inch of plywood is all that stands between a granite boulder and a cold swim, a collision that will simply scuff the bottom of a rubber raft will sink a wooden drift boat. Even a glancing blow from one of ten thousand submerged growlers will splinter the Sapeli. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1781578739750-FXNYJQ5OJ477L4C3BSDT/image-asset.jpeg Adventures Gallery 2 Uncle Lee Loved to Fish https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1466879054778-DE6P2L8IFZEHDFWKIWFF/DSC_0560.jpg Adventures Gallery 2 - Quebec City, Canada, Heroes in the Street I have watched the riders for two decades. In that time, the bikes have grown lighter, more complex. Carbon fiber frames, electric gearshifts and perfectly spaced cassettes where the chain flows seamlessly from one cog to the next, all serve to shave ounces and increase power. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1574806523043-2W8RARFQZK3GM80RRAPK/image.png Adventures Gallery 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1586127348049-7WBNS87JFYYTIEH2IP0O/image-asset.jpeg Adventures Gallery 2 - Glen Plake, Darren Johnson climb toward basin below Mount Humphries Four days have passed since we turned off Highway 395 toward the alpin glow washed Central Sierras. The plan was to snowmobile across the desert then skin up to a high basin below Mount Humphries. After a month on the road, Glen wanted to ski at least one untracked chute before dark http://mensadventuretravel.com/adventures-1-1 daily 0.75 2019-11-26 http://mensadventuretravel.com/adventures-1/steelhead-nameless-river daily 0.75 2026-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1574806137514-DILB9FX2JR3LAOHUCUT8/image.png Adventures Gallery 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1574806137514-DILB9FX2JR3LAOHUCUT8/image.png Adventures Gallery 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1574806240245-73QMDTGQR4PFJ6TWACDG/image.png Adventures Gallery 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1574806676998-4XSWGZ6Z0HAW8FZT1B8S/image.png Adventures Gallery 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1574806717289-7RQO87EPLFZY6KS3QNOJ/image.png Adventures Gallery 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1574806874224-G7RDPQG5ABJ2MTT8PI37/image.png Adventures Gallery 3 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/5ddd83ede4c5152fe530bcfa/5ddd85b0e4c5152fe5311810/1777770903425/Andy+and+Steelhead+Buck+2.jpg Adventures Gallery 3 Twenty three pound Steelhead. Nameless River. Nameless State.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/574245898a65e2e080a2c5b4/1574806978420-84F0JHJKTMTAHBREJ8H1/image.png Adventures Gallery 3