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Gregg is currently working on a research project with
spotted owls in
the Tahoe Naitonal Forest. Click on the owl for updates about the
experience.
Gregg and Deia
are speaking about their adventure throughout the U.S, please visit the
Presentations
for more info.
We have been named National Geographic Adventurers of the Year
-Culture. Click
here for the article
The Hike:
Our goal was to backpack the length of the Andes Mountain
Range, in the mountains. Combining a number of trekking methods
including but not limited to, cross-country point-the-compass-and-go
trekking, following foot and horse trails that have been used for
centuries by local farmers and tradesmen, skipping down the Capaq
Ñan (the original Incan Trail), and ever so occasionally braving
the train lines, we accomplished our goal on April 17th, 2008. Our
desire was to experience the culture and environment of the Andes
first-hand in a manner that we feel only the pace of walking
accommodates. Our intent was to learn as much as possible about the
sustainable means of living that the people of South America have used
for centuries, in order that we may teach what we have learned upon our
return to the U.S. To the best of our knowledge, having successfully
completed the trek, after covering 56 degrees of the globe, trekking
more than 7800 miles, we became the first two people to backpack the
Andes Mountain Range, the first two to walk it through the mountains
without relying on roads, and Deia became the first woman to have
walked South America.
