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Rogue Wilderness Adventures Introduces Bettys with Backpacks: Women-Only
Hiking Trips Along Oregon’s Rogue River
This season, leave the hairdryer behind, grab your best girlfriend, sister or mom and hit the trail. Rogue Wilderness Adventures, a pioneer in hiking and rafting adventure trips along the Rogue River, is now offering "Bettys with Backpacks"—four-day, women-only hikes along the Rogue River Trail in the stunning Rogue River Wilderness of Oregon.
The Rogue River National Recreation Trail from Grave Creek to Foster Bar is in the heart of the National Wild and Scenic Rogue River Canyon. This is a 44-mile trail that was originally built by miners, and there are five historic lodges along the trail that were built in the early 1900s and can only be accessed by foot or raft. Rogue Wilderness Adventures takes adventurous women on these treks, recently named “One of the Best Treks in the World” by Outside’s Go Magazine.
Hotwire.com® Program Pays for Half
of Carbon Offsets Purchased by Its Customers
Hotwire.com®, a leading discount travel site, is known for its great deals on airfare, hotels and car rentals. Now you can add carbon offsets to that list, because Hotwire has announced that when customers purchase offsets through a new program with TerraPass, they will only have to pay half of the cost that TerraPass normally charges—because Hotwire will pay the rest.
By participating in this program, customers can partner with Hotwire to fund emission reductions in order to help balance the impact that travel has on the environment.
Georgia State Parks Launches Paddling Club
Georgia’s State Park System has unveiled a new club just for canoe and kayak enthusiasts. The Park Paddlers Club includes six state parks with waterways ranging from tidal rivers to the celebrated Okefenokee Swamp. Members can earn a bragging-rights t-shirt by paddling all 22 miles at Crooked River, George L. Smith, Magnolia Springs, Reed Bingham, Stephen C. Foster and Sweetwater Creek state parks.
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ new commissioner, who is a long-time kayaker, announced the Park Paddlers Club during the department ’s annual Weekend for Wildlife fundraising event.
AdventureWomen Debuts Women-Only Alaska Bear Viewing and Wildlife Safari
AdventureWomen, Inc., a pioneer in women's vacations and adventure travel since 1982 and the oldest adventure travel company for active women over 30, is now taking solo women travelers on an Alaska vacation to rival none. The Alaska Bear Viewing and Wildlife Safari offers adventure in America’s “last great place” and is a wildlife aficionado’s and photographer’s dream trip. AdventureWomen tours ensure an incredible value based on the all-inclusive nature of the trip. Best of all, traveling in a small group with AdventureWomen gives travelers access to remote areas of Alaska where most travelers don't have the opportunity to venture.
The playground is Alaska's National Parks: the Kenai Peninsula and Kenai Fjords National Park and Wildlife Refuge, and hundreds of square miles of bountiful Alaskan wilderness areas. Adventurous women will discover endless expanses of rolling forests, mountain meadows, hidden lakes, whispering streams and turquoise glaciers, all teeming with rare species of North American wildlife.
Grand Canyon National Park Now Accepting Applications for Colorado River Permits
The National Park Service is now accepting applications for noncommercial river trip permits to raft the Colorado River through Grand Canyon National Park. The permits are for specific launch dates within calendar year 2010.
A total of 266 permits will be awarded for 12- to 25-day river trips. Eligible individuals can apply online at the weighted lottery website.
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