Blog entries tagged sports

Active volcanoes - A Great Place to Take your Nomad!

Brooks McKee — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:00:00 +0100

I read the description in the trail guide: Prepare for weather extremes: heat, rain, wind, and snow! Instantly, I thought this would be a great place to take my Nomad on an outdoor adventure! Yes, here in the soggy Northwest we have access to one of the most active volcanos on the planet....Mt. St. Helens.
Not having been there, I was not sure what to expect, but I knew it would be an environment of extremesRead More...

Nomad on Chimborazo

Guest — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0100

A friend of mine, an engineering lab director who works at another company in town and an avid mountain climber, borrowed a Nomad prototype to take up the side of Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador last May. Tim had a great trip, but terrible weather and snow conditions. As he put it, "picture a knife edge ridge at 18,000' and your footsteps kicking off avalanches on both sides going off into a dark void; we turned around." He has a way with words.
Tim used the Nomad a fair amount on the aclimatizatioRead More...

Recon goes to the ends of the earth—literally—in record-setting expedition

Charles Bonville — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:00:00 +0100

We mentioned Fredrik Sträng’s record-setting expedition in an earlier blog entry, and as we approach the 3rd anniversary of Fredrik's amazing achievement, we thought we’d highlight it again. It’s a great story.

Climbing the seven highest peaks on the world’s seven continents is challenging enough, but Swedish photographer and adventurer Fredrik Sträng did it

in just six months and six days, setting a new Guinness World RRead More...