

Today’s guest blogger, REI employee Ching Fu, recounts the soaring highs and chilly lows of her bike tour of the entire Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway last summer: It had been raining for 3 days straight, and I was ready to just be home. But I had to keep pedaling. The bitter cold rain was an unwelcome surprise, especially since it was July in the southeast... ...
Assorted clips we spotted in February that we thought fellow REI types might find interesting… The Wild Heart, with views of the American Southwest, including Antelope Valley and the Vermillion Cliffs: Astronomer's Paradise, offering scenes from a telescope installation in Chile's Atacama Desert: Crusher, which is not the official name, but it seems fitting for this tale of a sequoia and one poor guy's unlucky parking spot: And finally, cheerfully, A Story for Tomorrow, one fellow's lovely ...
Posted by T.D. Wood on February 29, 2012 5:49 PM & Tagged Patagonia, Southwest, sequoia and videos | permalink | Comments
Talk about pressure. Every year, REI Adventures honors its Top Guides (the top 7 out of more than 200 guides) with a trip to Seattle, and I was designated as their tour guide. Me?!? How can my guiding skills possibly measure up to the glowing five-star reviews these amazing folks routinely receive? We started the week off with a little introduction to Seattle and then spent time at REI’s headquarters in Kent. Though not a native of Seattle, I’ve lived here for 15 years now and I feel rather ...
Posted by Belinda G on March 21, 2011 7:56 PM & Tagged Australia, Cycling, Czech Republic, Europe, Greece, Hiking, Mont Blanc, REI Adventures, Southwest, Travel, africa, guides and top guides | permalink | Comments
The other day, a group of us at REI Adventures were talking about some of our favorite trip images. So that made me wonder, what are some of our most photogenic destinations? I posed this question to Abbo, our online content manager. He sees photographs from REI Adventures trips all over the world which are submitted by our travelers, guides and employees. Abbo is quite an accomplished photographer himself, so he knows a good picture when he sees one. Here’s what he had to say about some of our ...
Posted by Belinda G on April 29, 2010 2:31 PM & Tagged Galapagos Islands, Photography, REI Adventures, Southwest, Swiss Alps, Travel, belize, machu picchu and nepal | permalink | Comments
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