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AdventureCORPS News & Events
AdventureCORPS Presents CORPScamp:
Multi-Day Lifestyle Adventure Camps for Cyclists, Runners, Triathletes, and Endurance Athletes - On and Off the Bike!
  
Join fellow athlete-adventurers for fabulous outdoor adventure adventures in beautiful, one-of-a-kind California locations!
CORPScamps are designed as five-day endurance sports adventure vacations. The activities are challenging, but not insane. They can be a challenge in their own right for new endurance athletes, or they can be an outstanding training opportunity for accomplished endurance athletes looking to take things to a new level. The camps are also designed as learning opportunities, with the opportunity to explore new places, get personalized coaching (if so desired), and balance out one's fitness with yoga, hiking, and other cross-training activities. The camps also provide a great introduction to yoga for those who haven't done it before.
For couples looking for an active vacation they can both enjoy, CORPScamps are ideal because participants go at their own pace and, for those who don’t want tackle the main activities each day, there are lots of less strenuous things to do in each location.
Every activity is optional, though; participants are free to "check out any time you like" if they want a break or extra rest or private time.
Please understand that CORPScamps are designed as a multi-day lifestyle adventure - five days of outdoor adventure in an otherworldly place - and each camp is only as difficult as YOU want it to be!
If you love cycling - or great winter endurance sports - and want to get away from it all and enjoy the company, and insights, of fellow athlete-adventurers, then you will enjoy CORPScamp!
It's not all about the bike, or running!
One of the best ways to become a better cyclist or runner, and fitter, happier, healthier human being, is to cross-train. The winter "off season" is a particularly good time to expand one's athletic repertoire. We absolutely love Mt. Shasta and we also love cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, and ice skating. So leave the bike at home and meet us at magical Mt. Shasta for a winter sports extravaganza: CORPScamp Shasta Snofari on Jan 17-21, 2009! Info here.
New! Click here for AdventureCORPS Recommended Products and Services!
 BADWATER GEAR AND DVD NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE
Get your Badwater gear - t-shirts, hats, tank tops, Injinji socks with the race logo, 2007 DVDs, posters, and much more - at ZombieRunner.com!
 Chris Kostman: Who Needs Him?
Excerpt from the feature story by Roy Wallack in the July 2008 Competitor Magazine
"Over the 20 years since I first interviewed him, I've seen Chris Kostman carve out a multi-faceted niche that is unique in cycling and endurance sports. He's a record-setting athlete with a penchant for crazy events like the Iditabike and the Triple Ironman; a trend-spotter and coach who rode the L.A. personal-trainer wave like John Travolta in the movie Perfect, and helped turn a local trend called Spinning into a world-wide phenomenon; and an entrepreneur who's built endurance events that are among some of the most sought-after by athletes from all around the globe, including the Badwater Ultramarathon and the Furnace Creek 508." Full story.
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AdventureCORPS events happen not in a man-made stadium, but in the real world "out there." We care deeply about the natural world for we are intrinsically linked with it and because we want to enjoy these events in their awesome natural settings for a long, long time. Stay tuned to the Headlines section of this page for a steady stream of links to useful, informative, interesting, and entertaining stories about the venues for our events, the natural world in which they are held, the action heroes who work to protect them, and what you can do to support your own health and the health of the world "out there." We hope and plan to update this section several days a week, so bookmark this page and enjoy it with your morning tea, or while you're surfing at work, every day! (Also, we archive all the Headlines that move off the front page - after a week or so - to this archive page.)
We're looking for more one-of-a-kind photos of "AdventureCORPS Athletes in Action at AdventureCORPS events" for the Sightings section. Specifically, the photo subjects need to be wearing AdventureCORPS gear (508 jersey, Death Valley jersey, Badwater shirt, and the like) and the images must be "Truly Classic!" like the one of Keith Kostman during the 2004 Furnace Creek 508. Send us your great shots! We're looking for similar shots from events other than ours, too.
Need An Adventure Insight Infusion? Check out the "Quote For The Day" page for insights and inspiration!
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Headlines
Climate change may carry huge price tag for California: "For the first time, the costs of global warming's projected effects in the nation's largest state have been quantified: About $2.5 trillion of real estate assets in California are at risk from extreme weather events, sea level rise and wildfires, with a projected annual price tag of between $300 million and $3.9 billion, according to a new report, "California Climate Risk and Response," written by UC Berkeley."
The Climate for Change: "The world authority on the climate crisis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, after 20 years of detailed study and four unanimous reports, now says that the evidence is “unequivocal.” To those who are still tempted to dismiss the increasingly urgent alarms from scientists around the world, ignore the melting of the north polar ice cap and all of the other apocalyptic warnings from the planet itself, and who roll their eyes at the very mention of this existential threat to the future of the human species, please wake up. Our children and grandchildren need you to hear and recognize the truth of our situation, before it is too late."
Death Valley struggles to make abandoned mines safe: "No other park in the nation has as many abandoned mines as Death Valley. Officials put the number between 10,000 and 50,000, or about a third of all hazardous mines within the national park system."
State 'green' plan called job creator: "Tough state mandates requiring Californians to reduce their carbon footprints and use more homegrown renewable energy will create more than 400,000 jobs, help consumers save on their lighting bills and boost the state's economy by $76 billion by 2020."
California issues plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions: "Over the next 12 years, new regulations would seek to turn the climate change clock back to 1990 levels. More efficient electricity use, less traffic and cleaner cars are goals."
Bush administration seeks last-minute regulations: "The new rules would be among the most controversial deregulatory steps of the Bush era and could be difficult for his successor to undo. Some would ease or lift existing constraints on private industry, including power plants, mines and farms. Those and other regulations would help clear obstacles to some commercial ocean-fishing activities, ease controls on pollutants that contribute to global warming, relax drinking-water standards and lift a key restriction on mountaintop coal mining."
Take Advantage of Our National Parks: "Taking a vacation in a tight economy can be an adventure in itself but there are alternatives. A trip to a National Park is a great way to get away from the stresses of your day and spend some time with friends, family, and nature."
With Free Bikes, Challenging Car Culture on Campus: "When Kylie Galliani started at the University of New England in August, she was given a key to her dorm, a class schedule and something more unusual: a $480 bicycle.
“I was like, ‘A free bike, no catch?’ ” Ms. Galliani, 17, a freshman from Fort Bragg, Calif., asked. “It’s really an ideal way to get around the campus.”
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