Written by Vapur Pro Team member, Eric Larsen. It’s hard to blend in when you’re wearing a harness strapped to two huge 50-pound truck tires and pulling them around the rough trails near the outskirts of Boulder Colorado. Lurching forward and clawing against the weight with our trekking poles and sheer will, my expedition partner [...]

Written by Vapur Pro Team member, Anna Levesque. This week my theme for my yoga classes is ‘Cleansing and Replenishment.’ This theme is easy for a paddler to appreciate. When it rains the rivers are replenished with water and anything that was stagnant or stuck on the river is washed away downstream. Our bodies also [...]

­­Written by Vapur Pro Team member, Chris Davenport.  Well, I’m finally back in Aspen and have been up skiing some amazing powder on Ajax the last two days. But on my skins up the hill in the dawn hours, I can’t help but reflect on our recent journey to one of my favorite places in [...]

­­Written by Vapur Pro Team member, Jake Norton. After almost 30 trips to the Indian subcontinent over the years, I’ve developed a good tolerance for the local gut flora and fauna. I rarely get sick anymore, and am fairly adventurous with my intake, eating street foods and enjoying local drinks. But, my rule of thumb [...]

Written by Vapur Pro Team member, Laura Bylund. As of last week, roughly seventy outdoor leaders in training at the University of California became proud new owners of the Vapur Anti-Bottle. The Leadership Training Course at UCSB is an annual five-month intensive that prepares aspiring individuals with the hard and soft skills necessary for guiding [...]

Written by Vapur Pro Team member, Laura Bylund. THE TRAVEL BUG Many westerners travel the world in search of wondrous adventure and new cultural experiences, but quite often get more than what they bargained for… for no less than two or three days. Sure as scheiße, I’m talking about diarrhea. Every world traveler I know [...]

Written by Vapur Pro Team member, Anna Levesque. Stand up paddleboard yoga, also known as SUP yoga, is a new trend sweeping across the US. It’s been around the coastal areas for a number of years and is now moving inland to lakes and rivers. It’s a fun and unique way to get outside, strengthen [...]

Written by Vapur Pro Team member, Chris Davenport. I just finished my fourteenth year in a row visiting Portillo, Chile during the month of August.  The last ten of those years have been spent running my successful Portillo Superstars ski camp, a week of good, hard-skiing, geared-toward experts looking to up their game. My history [...]

This post was written* by Dave Polivy, owner of Tahoe Mountain Sports. When Dave is not working hard to find the best products to carry in his shop, he is out adventuring, traveling and putting all the awesome outdoor products that TMS carries to the test! Being the gear buyer for an outdoor store might [...]

Written by Vapur Pro Team member, Laura Bylund. Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital, UCSB Department of Recreation and Vapur, July 22-26, 2013 Every summer, about 45 children and teens with disabling diseases, disorders and spinal cord injuries come from far and wide to the UCSB Recreation Center for a week of intense sporting organized by Santa Barbara [...]