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Show to TRAVEL Sunday. : January The Salt Lake Tribune Going y thrilling to perform, but they ion’t necessarily To Extremes For Adventure involve the seri to life on which extreme sport purists i Those of us 1eaning ofthe ssitback and rlman,a(Caliwith @ Continued from H-1 oing three nights at a jungle camp. Perlman was onc of the first scouting thefalls. instructions, a preparatoryhelicopter jump and onejump at the falls.) Youalso need nerve More than US. adherents to 4 code of near uicidal sports fanaticism estab 1 jy French skiers and killed worldwide, a few at Angel many English origins nountaineer 30 BASE jumpers have been Falls. The sport is bannedfor rec reational jumpers in the Extreme United is elan outing a great rarity Of mainstream ste now in k extreme forts. says the word “extreme” has fallen out of favor among the tremeon guided adventures. mpi treme sport.” ing xtreme Games” weeklong Olympic of Generatior mainstreaming I our lives. d. but not ouldoor > stunts. Competitors also wa i towedby kites, race road Equipment luges (wheeledsleds) on mountain roads, andtryto outdo each other mountain biking as River-boarders wear n guided in terror who has watched people in such recreation on rigs shooting Class IV and V rap: ‘onsid ids. says boar e easier to han- dle than rafts and kayaks Sometimes “extreme” is a mat- and easier to use so 1 ter of newness. It takes the world do, safe devil stunts. we te a while to figure out what to do with new toys and amusements. stl mountain biking and in-line skat mits These often-bizarre sports are New were thrilling to watch, and undoubted One-time fringe sports. like METAL RY uaeal CHINA & HONG KONG» Mar 21, 96 14 days Visit Bejing, Shanghai, Quilin, Hong Kong Incl, RT air United Air, Deluxehotels, all meals in China & BB in Hkg, English speaking quides. escorted by Jenny Dubois-4 seats remaining. ISRAEL-THE HOLY LAND $2395 March 6 11 days April 17 10 days May 14 11 days. Steve & Kathy Fenton escort All incl. 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This, like BASE hand, has caught on huge, and ad- Three ness may seem an unpromising vacation destination — partic ularly the canyon reminded me ofa bobslec surfers’ body boards ha \ chutes, wilder breakthrough may propulsion and steering, along Much of today’s commonplace and adventurir | || | desert in-the-making in boatless riverrunning, using whitewater body boards, the riverine version of some activ )oner or later for X thrill sports like sky surfing — skydiving with a board attached to thefeet, the better to do aero boardsailing. Another will cross over to we'll triy is a can By James T. Yenckel He W N California's further democratize big whitewater, Dvorak sees a rage- em just as bizarre V Angel Falls, pedaling off the brink wear | DeathValley in Winter: A Lively Escape decked kayaks were theonly oneperson boats for big rapids. 1 though, labels neophytes other outfitters use on trips, rigid Pe travel — more high-adrenalin buzz than deadly danger. The word has gone commercial, too. cropping up in ads, on clothes and training, of inflatables. which Dvorak and voice full of miration, Given the risks and ne essary skill and angfroid, it w | probably stay ings Lately the word “extreme” has taken the path trod by adventure extremes lenge experts in hard-shell kayaks. Beforethe recent popularity But the spirit | but the hazards usually aren't. Seri ous accidents are flukes rather than routinely accepted happen. literally over the edge at do-based river-running company solo-paddle inflatable kayaks in Class II-IV rapids, whic!th chal- vutdoor elite One maniac, a profes sional stuntman, took mountain biking fat-tire cycle tours on every conti nent So what's going to be huge in day's ne ath-defyin, chronicl commercial adventure travel whererisks to clients are almost ys more apparent than real The sensations might be ex falling higher, while the rest of us surprise ourselves doing things we neverimagined doing venture travel companies being beaten back. After about a Ib Mass acceptancepushes the ex deadly plunges into the unknown on the order of BASE jumping Angel Falls. Now theyre sched sees other whitew r Pe tremes ever further. Experts moves get trickier, the price of uled trips Bill Dvorak. owner ofa Colora fing, river-run. ginia Bybeing extreme.” in the purist’s sense, Aerial Focus’ Venezu howthe extreme gets less-so. Until about a decade ago, the such streams were potentially words, has French spread from the came to embrace the New River Gorge in West Vir [ | South America’s Bio Bio and Africa's Zambezi. First descents of ke ing (no ropes or id the most difficult States except in very special cases. such as an annual jump at ing, explodedin popularity as the world’s wildest runnable rapids were beyond the pale for com mercial outfitters. The breakthrough was the self-bailing raft Before the self-bailer, only riy er-running’s elite could take on monstrously rough rivers like back to H7 1996 world found out how much fun they are River-running is a case study in who have some un pore nndtig OF tf 28, Things just turnedout to be much less da rous than they seemed at first eH . jol & Spa * Walking Trails * Planed Activities ‘ ne Si * Access T Golf ‘ Gun Club Horses ° 5 7 at Each Site Sasinos FOR INFORMATION & RESERVATIONS -4243 CALL (800) 818-2773 or (520) 347 4 ’ ora 328-9733 Wrens TRAVEL MANAGEMENT. 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