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HIGH on ADVENTURE
MAY/JUNE
2025, OUR 29TH YEAR

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

Kayak surfing on Maui

 
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FEATURED TRAVEL STORIES FOR MAY/JUNE 2025

Lynn Rosen, Content Editor; Steve Giordano, Web Editor

 
   
  Skier in air

RESCUE ANYWHERE WITH AIRFLARE
by Lynn Rosen
The AirFlare app is revolutionizing outdoor safety by turning the smartphone that nearly everyone carries, into a new kind of safety and rescue tool that enables a search team to quickly locate an adventurer in need of assistance whether in or out of cell service, or whether conscious or unconscious.

 
       
  Dog biting bike t-shirt A NIGHT IN THE ER by Steve Giordano
A year later to the day, I visited the ER doctor to give him my heartfelt thanks for everything he did that night, and I mentioned the voice in my ear. He smiled broadly and said, "That was me, and that was NOT a theoretical question." Until that moment, I hadn't fully understood I had been in such dire straits.
 
       
  Harstine Island, WA

SPRING ADVENTURING IN OREGON AND WASHINGTON
by Larry Turner

I visited three Pacific Northwest States (yes, in the broader definition, Western Montana is part of the PNW) in Spring, all with their pleasures and platitudes...two of which I'll explore a bit here: Oregon and Washington.

 
       
  Golden Gate Bridge underside

EXPERIENCING THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE The Under-a-Bridge Story
by Lee Juillerat

On a recent San Francisco visit I saw the Golden Gate from a different perspective — from underneath. The new view led to new thoughts. The result is this under-a-bridged version of the Golden Gate Bridge.

 
   

 

 
Mayan structure

TREASURES OFTHE YUCATAN PART 2: CHICHEN ITZA TO ESCARCEGA
by Vicki Hoefling Andersen

In Part 2 we continue the journey through a landscape filled with natural wonders, Colonial cities and designated Magic Pueblos, world-famous coastal destinations, and dozens upon dozens of ancient Maya sites.

   
       
Sign that says "Poets protecting the planet"

ADVENTURE POEM
by Timothy Pilgrim, Adventure Poet Laureate

La Push

Wend away from Kalaloch, leave miles
of beached cedar logs behind, pass
Ruby Beach, sand there, a gritty cradle

   
       
Panama Canal locks entrance

PANAMA - OCEAN TO OCEAN IN ONLY EIGHT HOURS
by Brad Hathaway

The voyage gave me a chance to learn about the unique seaway that handles more than a third of all the international container shipping to and from the United States.

   
       
Social Security cards

GOVERNMENT EFFECIENCY
Humor Column by Noma d'Plume

Hubby, who just started receiving his Social Security retirement benefits this year, got an email from the government saying that he needed to prove he was a "real person" within 60 days or that his benefits would be terminated. Huh?