+Wend: Fall 2008
Wend provides bold tales to fuel the passion for adventure, born from the love of climbing, bicycling, surfing, kayaking and backpacking.
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“ Cover”
adventure inspiration activism | VOLUME 3 ISSUE 3 AcrossAndes the The Voyage of Swell, Part 2: Positively Buoyant Captain Liz Clark Goes Feral Crossing the South Pacifi c Cycling Iran Friendly Access in the Axis of Evil Under the City Urban Exploration in the Ruins of NYC Canoeing the Canadian Bo...
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“ Table of Contents” (page 6)
Bikes to Rwanda 12 exit Seen & Read Greenery 14 Under City 18 96 Ed Mazzarella, Surfrider Foundation 16 current platform Positively Buoyant Across the Andes 48 Boreal Summer 32 62 wanderlust trip Cycling Iran 76 Boost & Roll 88 survival kit wend magazine 5 GORE-TEX® LOOK FOR THESE MOUNTAIN HARDWE...
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“ Letter from the Editor” (page 9)
Letter from Letter from the Editor People unfamiliar with Wend oft en ask me what the magazine is about, and, I have to say, up until now it’s been a diffi cult question to answer elegantly. So in an eff ort to achieve clarity, our fi nely tuned branding apparatus (translation: the Wend partners ...
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“ Contributors” (page 11)
contributors In 2004, Rob Lilwall left his job as a geography teacher in Oxfordshire and decided to do something far more relaxing: He flew to the far eastern edge of Siberia and then spent the following three years riding home on his bicycle—via Papua New Guinea, Tibet and Afghanistan (www.cycli...
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“ Bikes to Rwanda” (page 13)
BIKES TO RWANDA In a world that is constantly plagued by war, environmental degradation and social injustice, solving problems can be daunting. But sometimes those big problems can be solved with simple answers. Such is the case with Bikes to Rwanda (BTR), a nonprofit organization that works to p...
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“ Greenery: What Trees Do You Hug?” (page 15)
greenery greenery Th e world’s virgin forests provide habitat, protection from erosion and carbon seques- tration. Beyond that, to many of us, they are temples where we fi nd meaning and personal enlightenment. In an age when consumption of wood products far outpaces nature’s ability to renew its...
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“ Platform: Surfrider Foundation” (page 18)
A section in which we donate space to activists working to make the planet a better place to live. Th ey write the message; we amplify it. My name is Ed Mazzarella. I am an activist. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “When one negro stood up, he was run out of town; if a thousand stood up together, th...
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“ Under City: Urban Exploration in the Abandoned, Ruined, Forgotten Bowels of New York City” (page 19)
UNDER CITY Under City Urban Exploration in the Abandoned, Ruined, Forgotten Bowels of New York City words: Kat Rosenfi eld photos: Andrew Janik 18 wend magazine Andrew is freaking out. Mostly I know this because he’s just said as much. His voice, disembodied and fl oating out of the dark to my le...
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“ The Voyage of Swell, Part 2: Positively Buoyant” (page 33)
PHOTO COURTESY SWELL 32 wend magazine second time that night. Blasts of wind and sea stripped me of exhaustion’s lingering ache as I emerged from the shelter of the spray dodger. My hands and feet gripped and released in rote, synchronic placements. Bare toes spread and pressed into the worn, wet...
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“ Across the Andes” (page 49)
Deia, Journal Entry: We are on a small bus; our knees are anything but straight in front of us, as the bus seats are made for Ecuadorians, who are not known for their great statures. Th e bus is on a narrow dirt road, twisting its way up and away from the capital city of Quito, toward the small t...
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