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HIGH on ADVENTURE
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER
2024, OUR 28TH YEAR

A bi-monthly adventure travel magazine by
Pacific Northwest journalists and photographers

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FEATURED TRAVEL STORIES FOR NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2024

Lynn Rosen, Content Editor; Steve Giordano, Web Editor

 
Editor's Note: For this edition of High on Adventure,
we are revisiting some of our favorite stories from our vast archives of exciting adventures.
We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we did experiencing and sharing them.
   
  Go bags  

HOW TO PREPARE DISASTER-READY EMERGENCY GO-BAGS by Lynn Rosen

You can't plan when evacuation emergencies will hit. But you can plan for dealing with them when they do. Everyone needs a "go bag" and Lynn Rosen lays out some "must-takes."

 
         
  Willamette skier, Oregon  

SKIING WITHIN 100 MILES OF HOME,
by Larry Turner

People who can walk out their door and access a ski lift, or even drive a few blocks or miles for that privilege are those among us who are extremely fortunate. In my neck of the woods (Malin, OR, on the California border), that drive is 100 miles.

 
         
  courtesy-condors-hope-dot-com  

FEARSOME WILDLIFE
by Steve Giordano


Heard any good Sasquatch stories lately? Do you wonder where they are when you're hiking in the woods? Do you keep a camera handy just in case?

 
         
  Richmond, BC Saboten fast food  

EAT STREET IN RICHMOND, BC
by Yvette Cardozo

It's called, simply, "Eat Street." That, at least, is how locals refer to the stretch in Richmond, BC, along Alexandra Road that is end-to-end mouthwatering authentic Asian food.

 
         
  Kayakingin the San Juan Islands   IN SEARCH OF ORCAS; Kayaking in the San Juan Islands, by Lee Juillerat
Years ago, while traveling on a ferry in the San Juan Islands, I heard the captain make an announcement that a pod of orcas, better known as killer whales, were alongside the ferry. My family and I scurried to watch. Fascinating. I promised then and there that I'd return another time for a longer look.
 
         
  Mt.Hood Skiway on cover of Popular Science  

MT. HOOD
by Vicki Hoefling Andersen


A short-lived dream to access Timberline came in the form of the Skiway, America's second aerial tram. Based on the sky-hook system used by loggers to move huge timber, it utilized city buses on a cable supported by a three-mile swath of towers from lower Government Camp to Timberline. Operating from 1951-53, it proved slow, unprofitable and unpopular.

 
         
  Tim Pilgrim  

ADVENTURE POETRY by Timothy Pilgrim
High on Adventure's adventure poet

Pray, Montana
Fight river rage, ancient flow away
from geysers, bison, grizzlies, the whole park.
I'm trying to heal a life, the bit
that's left...

 
         
 
Halloween sign
 

HALLOWEEN AGAIN
Off-piste humor by Noma
Due to my fall fetish, our Halloween decor remains on display for days after the last trick-or-treater has vacated our porch. We tend to go
all out, partly because our direct neighbors are all Halloween no- shows.

 
         
 
Stockholm water sculpture
 

STOCKHOLM, A CAPITAL CITY ON THE WATER
by Brad Hathaway

While an hour cruise to the east onto Lake Maleran was fun, a longer voyage to the west was a thrill. Stockholm is located at the most protected spot of an archipelago of more than 24,000 islands scattered over the 50 miles between Stockholm and the Baltic Seas.