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If you were hoping to visit Havasupai Falls this year, you’re unfortunately out of luck. The trail to Supai Village and beyond to the falls is closed to tourists until 2009 due to the flood last week that prompted the evacuation of 400 people.

No one was injured in the flood, thankfully, as officials and helicopters worked through the night to lift residents and tourists to safety. But the trail was damaged extensively - so much so that the resident Havasupai tribe will need the rest of the year to clean it up. The trail, mostly mud and rock, was washed away completely in some spots.

Supai is home to the Havasupai Indian Reservation - and is a truly magical place. I had the chance to visit in 2003 and believe it to be one of the most beautiful places on the face of the Earth. An 8-mile hike into the Grand Canyon from Hualapai Hilltop, the village is a modest place with a small inn, restaurant, and supply shop. Here is where you purchase camping permits (and get a bite to eat). Another two miles down the trail lies the main attraction - the waterfalls.

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Sometimes I forget how lucky I am to live in Colorado. We’ve got great weather, unbelievable scenery, majestic mountains, and one of the best national parks in the country. Last weekend I took a much-needed trip up to Rocky Mountain National Park to take a hike and get some fresh mountain air.

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National Geographic Adventure Blog, one of my favorite reads, posted this interview with K2 survivor and Dutch mountaineer Wilco van Rooijen last week. He describes the incident and days that followed after the ice shelf fell and gives us a more in-depth understanding of the fear and pain he experienced on the mountain while awaiting rescue.

K2 Survivor Wilco van Rooijen, In His Own Words (As Seen On National Geographic Adventure Blog)

Text by Kirkpatrick Reardon
Photograph by Ed Viesturs

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If you listened to last week’s episode of Adventure Edge Radio, you heard the interview with Charlie Engle. Charlie is a recovering drug and alcohol addict who overcame his disease and became a philanthropic endurance runner.

Charlie recently ran 4500 miles across the Sahara Desert in order to raise money and awareness for the lack of water in the region. And now he’s ‘Running America’ to help raise money for, and awareness of, childhood obesity here at home. He’s also looking to set a new record for running across the country in 45 days or less. Running America, which will be filmed and made into a documentary, begins on 9/13/08 in San Francisco. From there, Charlie and another endurance runner, Marshall Ulrich, will run an average of 68 miles a day and end in New York on or before 10/28/08.

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Join The Blogging Post as we head around-the-world with our friends Drew & Erin. They’ll be sending us regular dispatches and updates from around, across, and all over the globe. This is their first post from Peru…

The Final Frontier

After almost a year on the road, Erin and I crossed the border from Bolivia and entered Peru, the final frontier in our world travels. We were headed to Cusco where we were eager to settle into one place for a few weeks and take some Spanish classes. We were a bit worn down from our illnesses and hard travels in Bolivia and looked forward to our stay in Cusco as an opportunity for learning, relaxing, and recuperating. Cusco is known as the archaeological capital of South American due to its history as the center of the pre-Columbian Incan culture. It’s also known as the “gringo” capital of the continent due to all of the world travelers it attracts. But we hoped to get a somewhat authentic experience by taking classes and staying with a Peruvian family during our time there.

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