Desert Solitude – Thru-hiking South America, Adventure Science
Quite often, the desert can be a difficult thing to appreciate. It can bake you to the core; there are nasty dust storms; it is full of spiders, snakes and scorpions; there are more thorny, poky plants than imaginable; water sources are scarce; the barren,...
Southern (Hemisphere) Hospitality – Thru Hiking South America
Over the past two weeks we've hiked from jungles practically dripping in green to the erosion-cut landscape of the desert. I'll cover our first green week from lush Huerquehue National Park to Flor del Valle, Chile (sadly our last time in Chile) and Sarah...
Tres Chicas: Walking on the Moon
Between the volcanic sand-filled valleys, full-fledged night (yes, night) rainbows, and neon green alpine vegetation, it is hard to not imagine that you are on another planet. The moonscape of the volcanic region we were able to explore was beyond any of our...
Wolverine Tracking by Whitney Leonard from NRDC
I think I might be hooked on wolverines. Last weekend I had the amazing opportunity to join a group of volunteers tracking wolverines and lynx in western Montana, and now I can’t stop searching for Google images of these awesome and elusive creatures. (I promise...
Tres Chicas: Familiar Faces
A whirlwind of taxis, multiple airports, a six hour bus ride and a few days without sleep, made the four days that I actually spent on the beach in the Dominican for my brother's wedding seem like a distant dream. I was back in Bariloche with the girls! A week apart...
Arctic Row’s latest Video
Team: The expedition is made up of 4 crew members for 2 rowing positions. The team will rotate, rowing 2 hours on / 2 hours off for 24 hours a day.Boat Shape: Unlike traditional rowboats, the rowing vessel is built with the latest in rowing technology....
Tres Chicas Locas — Glorious Gear — Scientific Expedition for Pacific Biodiversity
Glorious GearPosted by Trinity on Thursday, January 26, 2012Nearly four months and over one thousand kilometers on the trail, we can tell you the good (our packs), the bad (Steripen), and the ugly (Sarah's t-shirt) with regard to our gear. We could...
Jon Bowermaster – Port Lockroy
Port Lockroy — If there is a human population center along the Antarctic Peninsula, this is it. While there may be hundreds of thousands of penguins, tens of thousands of seals, whales and sea birds that call this remote stretch home, few people do.But at...
Tres Chicas Locas – Right On Time!
Right on time!Posted by Trinity on Thursday, January 19, 2012We finally have been able to get the pictures from our Villa O'Higgins to Cochrane leg (when we stayed with gaucho Don Rial) on the blog. Check that blog post out here: Thankful for...
Jon Bowermaster – Enterprise Island, Antarctica — Rain, rain go away.
We woke tied-off to the rusted hulk of a half-sunken Norwegian whaling ship. Its story is legend along the Peninsula for having caught fire a century ago during a sail-away party, its stores of whale oil afire lighting up the sky for several days. Now it is just...