What is the greatest adventure you have ever been on? For me it was a white water

[applegrove]

canoe trip to the Dumoine River in Quebec. Ten days of fire cooked food, white water and making camp. When we finally got back to civilization we went to a grocery store for lunch and I bought a can of icing and ate it straight up!!!

[Brickbat]

1. Living in Russia.

A lot of it was routine, a lot of it was tedious, but a lot of it was seat-of-the-pants bizarre.

[applegrove]

3. Oh yeah. Russia would be wild, just wild.

[HERVEPA]

2. Trekking in Nepal

[applegrove]

9. My sister and brother in law went to Nepal on their honeymoon. They loved trecking there.

[tigereye]

4. childbirth and child-rearing, actually and it's still going on

Nothing else has been as challenging, frankly.

[applegrove]

5. Oh no doubt. That big love must be the 'wildest trip' of most people's lives.

[MilesColtrane]

6. Flying in (and out) of Pilsung KOTAR range in one of these.

It is a tactical live fire range located at the foot of Mt Taebeck, one of the highest mountains in Korea, 160 miles due east of Pyongtaek.

Some of the most extreme turbulence I've ever ridden in. That may have contributed to the engine failure flying out.

We had to make an emergency landing at an ROK Air Force base.

After our stomachs settled we sat around and ate MREs while waiting for a ride back to the billets.

[applegrove]

10. Scary stuff!!

[DeadEyeDyck]

7. transitting from Orange Grove to Snake Springs

Cave diving

[applegrove]

8. Wow!

[HEyHEY]

11. Sneaking into Burma was something else

Or it would have been if it'd happened! :P Made ya look

Adventure? It isn't much, but one of my favourites was Vietnam last year, my and my GF rented scooters and zipped around the countryside for a day. It was pretty amazing, Vietnam is such a lush country and the sun was starting to set at one point. I don't think I'd ever seen a more amazing sunset.

We also went up the river on little rafts. But didn't stay long at the destination cause there was just some jackass there who kept saying, "The horror, the horror" instread of the pho we were promised

Here's a pic of me in my best dorky tourist clothes. Got burned to SHIT that day.

Here's a pic

[applegrove]

12. Aw that scenery is just gorgeous. I can well imagine what the sunset was like.

[Enthusiast]

13. White water?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8

[applegrove]

14. Oh you! LOL!

[Crystal Clarity]

25. I love that scene from Deliverance

The movie kind of goes downhill from there though :scared:

Speaking of scary and whitewater, I live within 10 minutes of this river and about an hour from this spot. It's class 4/5 depending on the conditions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY5ovLLd7bM&feature=related

[applegrove]

29. At the time of year we did the Dumoine it was mostly "3s". Maybe we did 1 or 2 "4s". Was fun. I

always wanted to do it again but was too shy.

[Crystal Clarity]

40. Just do it!

Don't let shyness get in the way. It sounds as if you had a great trip the first time. Scary whitewater can be exciting, but I actually prefer calmer stuff overall. The Dumoine sounds perfect for that. Just the right mix. Plus the whole experience you described sounds great. The meals, the camping. Definitely my idea of fun! :hi:

[applegrove]

46. Unfortunately I got PTSD and my adrenaline is now completely shot. I go into agony whenever

the adrenaline flows. So I don't do anything that would get my adrenaline going. I should look into lake canoeing though.

[Enthusiast]

37. OMG!

I would not go down the river Kennebec for free!

[Crystal Clarity]

39. Yeah and that is one of the tamer spots

There are other vids showing worse but I just picked the first I came across on YouTube.

I've done it once and it's quite a fun adrenaline rush, but I prefer kayaking down the river from my section which is much more calm. Probably about a 2. And of course that is free.

[KamaAina]

15. Swimming with dolphins off O'ahu

on the west side, away from Honolulu, they come close enough to shore that you can kayak out there and jump in.

Once a calf got within maybe an arm's length of me!

[applegrove]

30. I'd love to meet a dolphin in the wild. That is so cool.

[Rosie1223]

16. Three kids in a minivan, to the Grand Canyon and back.

Talk about a harrowing adventure.

:hi:

[PJPhreak]

17. Living off a Kawasaki 550 Ltd for 18 months...

3 Countries,33 states,43,000 miles,Rain,Snow,Cold,Rabid Racoons,Drunk drivers,Fantastic Ride!

I did this in 85-86...One of the Craziest things I have ever done,I got disgusted with my shitty job so I thought I needed to go for a ride one afternoon...and just kept going.

[Enthusiast]

20. Now THAT was a great adventure.

Should have kept a detailed diary with pictures.

[PJPhreak]

21. It was a trip,To say the least,

But I have to admit This Dude has me humbled...Around the World...On a 1963 Harley-Davidson Panhead Chopper...Lotsa Pics and the Dude even left the Alabama Plates that say "Hoodlum"! Great Read! Epic Trip! And this Dude is a good writer to boot!

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=462017

Here is the Route Map...



The Bike...

[Enthusiast]

38. I remember that trip!

The guy is an inspiration. Unbelievable.

[applegrove]

31. Wow! That takes guts.

[charlie and algernon]

18. hm, tie between a three day 40 mile canoe trip or one day 30 mile hike

Did the Canoe trip while still in boy scouts. We went on a three day, 40+ mile canoe trip down the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, camping along the river at night.


Did the hike this past May, hiked along the C&O Canal in Maryland to Harpers Ferry. This took 10 and a half hours to complete.

Both were extraordinarily fun and very tiring. But I'm already planning on doing the 30 mile again in 2011!

[zipplewrath]

19. probably walking across England

It's called the "coast to coast" trail. Took us 14 days. Beautiful walk, but we managed to choose the rainiest summer in recorded history. Unseasonably cold as well. Lost a boat load of weight. Ate continuously. Drank a few pints along the way as well.

[applegrove]

32. Alcohol along the way..... that is what I call walking!!!

[zipplewrath]

42. Funny story

Okay, funny to me. We'll see what the lounge thinks.

On our walking tour, our the majority of our luggage is moved each day, with us just carrying "day packs". There's alot of equipment in them, because we were walking 8 - 10 hours per day in any kind of weather. So we have alot of gear, including water, lunch food, and some "treats" such as chocolate or cookies or something. In the evenings, we have dinner and often had a bottle of wine in our room for a drink or two. We rarely finished the bottle and often had some fraction left. Because an open bottle of wine doesn't transport well, we tend to carry it with us during the day.

So we are stopped on the side of the trail one day, and we have the lunch out, which includes some cheese and bread as well as some "deli meats" and some fruit. The "treats" were also laying there. The bottle was out, and sitting by some of the other stuff because it was "in the way" when we were getting lunch out. Another group happens by, in the opposite direction and sees our "lunch". Cheese, fruit, deli meats, treates, and a bottle of wine. A few jokes are made about the lushness of our trail lunch and then one guy quips "ya got a cheese burger in there" and keeps walking. I respond "how much money you have?". He takes two more steps, stops, turns, and says, "You're joking right?"

When you're on the trail, and hungry, food can become a major portion of ones thoughts during the day. Even more so than a good, cold beer.

[applegrove]

47. LOL! I remember that desire for sugar after eating camp fire food for 10 days.

[Kali]

22. for thrills? driving THIS:

otherwise the 2002 trip to Turkey would probably take it over all.

[applegrove]

33. There is no way I would drive up or down that. That is a nogoapplegrovezone!!!

I'm afraid of heights!!!

[tekisui]

23. Hiking the entire Appalachian Trail.

The best 6 1/2 months of my life. So much freedom, so much wonder, so much beauty, so much learning about myself.

[applegrove]

34. Learning about oneself is alway the best part of an adventure.

[bikebloke]

24. Trekking Nepal independently

Or bike trekking New Zealand, Australia, Europe and Scotland.
Or my kibbutz time in Israel. Or my moshav time in the Negev Desert.
Or working a fruit farm that was tacked onto the side of a Norwegian fjord.
Or hitchhiking around Europe without getting murdered.
Or...

I've had a lot of great adventures. Probably why I can't go anywhere and just relax and be lazy.

[triguy46]

26. Rode a bike across the UK. The adventure was deciding which pub to drink in.

[Aristus]

27. The Gulf War of 1991.

2nd place is a lone, month-long jaunt around Western Europe I took in 1993, after I got out of the Army. Jim Morrison's grave in Paris, rock festivals in the Republic of Ireland, hangin' with some lovely, lovely daughters of Erin in Belfast...

What a great time...

[jobycom]

28. Working retail at Christmas in a mall in Dallas.

Aside from that, I've been boring. I did hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and back out in one day. And to get there I drove two days with seven people in a minivan. Just before Boulder Dam (we went to Vegas before the GC) my mother and I got into a huge fight over a spilled drink and both decided we were walking home in different directions. Yeah, in the middle of nowhere. :) About a hundred yards from the van I came to my senses. I made mom walk home, though. (That was a joke).

[Odin2005]

35. Fishing in the North Woods.

[MattSh]

36. Wow, I've done some good ones...

Nahanni National Park, Northwest Territories Canada, generally recognized as one of the best canoe trips anywhere. Fourteen days on the river and camping. Some super awesome scenery too.

Sea of Cortez, Baja, Mexico. Kayaking and camping for nine days. Marvelous in February.

And now, 5+ years in the former USSR's #3 city, Kiev. Still an adventure after all these years.

And before you ask, there are pictures of all of this....

Nahanni -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattsh/sets/72157624120123669/

Baja -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattsh/sets/72157623631588468/

Kiev & Ukraine -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattsh/sets/72157623690376201/

[applegrove]

44. The Nahanni WOW! That is top on all canoeists lits. Thanks for the photos.

[thirtiesgirl]

41. About 10 years ago...

I did a bungee jump of a 140 foot bridge in Nanaimo, Canada. That might sound kind of boring and unadventurous to most of you, but I'm *really* not a person into extreme sports of any kind. I already knew that before I did the bungee jump, but I think I needed to actually do a bungee jump before it really hit home for me.

And I did the bungee jump for the stupidest of reasons: I was trying to impress a guy. I'd met him on the internet, and he lived in Victoria, Canada. We'd been talking online and occasionally on the phone for about a year at that point and, essentially, had a long distance relationship. When I went to visit him for the first time in Canada, he thought it might be fun to drive up the coast to Nanaimo and do a bungee jump at this tourist spot. So that's what we did, and it was one of the worst experiences in my life.

I'm a landlubber, pure and simple. And I'm really not a fan of uncertainty. I'm not into putting my body into potentially dangerous situations, like having to jump off a 140 foot bridge and not know what's going to happen at the bottom. So doing the bungee jump was one of the scariest things I've ever done in my life. But once I was up there on the edge of the bridge with the bungee cord around my ankles, I didn't feel like I could turn back. Obviously, of course, I *could* have if I'd really wanted to, but the pressure of having this guy I liked watching me, and the added pressure of the bungee jump guys telling me to "just go for it" got me to turn off my inner voice telling me this was the stupidest thing I could ever do, and I jumped.

I wasn't happy with myself afterwards, for not having remained true to my inner voice and caving to the pressure of trying to impress this guy. I don't think he realized how angry and scared I was, even when I told him about it afterwards when we stopped for dinner on the way home.

...So, yeah. I don't do the extreme sports or extreme camping/hiking/kayaking thing. It's just not me and never has been. Sometimes just getting through life day to day is adventure enough for me.

[snooper2]

43. eating the still warm heart of a freshly killed rabbit

:P

[Skittles]

45. houseboating in Internatinal Falls

it was awesome!