http://adventu.re      insights on adventure travel Thu, 06 May 2010 02:47:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Responsible travel needs to be more responsible. With all the talk about responsible travel, carbon neutral trips, and eco-tours in the adventure travel world these days, you'd think companies are really operating in a fundamentally different way. Not so. [caption id="attachment_143" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Tom Driggs Trying Not to Destroy ... http://adventu.re/2010/02/five-dirty-secrets-about-responsible-travel/ I've seen this over and over, trekkers trekking for weeks on their vacation trek of a lifetime to Everest Base Camp on a standard Everest Trek expecting a view of Everest, only to find, doh, they can't see the mountain. Granted, from the nondescript dusty hill of 5,545 meter ... http://adventu.re/2010/01/hot-tip-you-cant-see-everest-from-everest-base-camp/ [caption id="attachment_124" align="alignleft" width="500" caption=""]Sunrise behind the still-unclimbed Macchapuchare or "Fish Tail Peak" from Poon Hill on the Annapurna Circuit Trek, Nepal Photo: Dan Passler Newly-built roads now reach nearly all the way around Nepal's Annapurna Circuit, the most popular long trek in the world. Is the journey is still ... http://adventu.re/2009/12/yep-the-annapurna-circuit-is-dead/ One of the most surprising things I found out when I began working for a large adventure travel company was that many of the "adventures" that the company billed to clients as "real life experiences" were actually canned and recycled shows for tourists. Case in point: Thuy, the ... http://adventu.re/2009/11/think-youre-off-the-beaten-track-with-a-small-group-tour-think-again/ [caption id="attachment_104" align="alignleft" width="500" caption=""]Lightning Over Short Hill Mountain kcdsTM through a creative commons license[/caption] I was getting my butt thoroughly kicked. Ben Bressler, President of Natural Habitat Adventures and I were mountain biking on a steep singletrack hill climb up at Hall Ranch, near Boulder, Colorado. It ... http://adventu.re/2009/10/lightning-and-mountain-biking-dont-mix/