Adventure Travel Destinations on a Budget

Holly R    Tribe Adventure Travel Blogs     Budget, diving, Skiing, Surfing

Diving and skiing aren’t exactly the cheapest of outdoor sports. However, if you look in the right places, there are more than enough full-on, high-adrenaline outdoor pursuits around the world – and ones even the budget traveller can afford.

Here, you can find a number of destinations you might not have associated with surfing, skiing or diving before. Also, South America has some of the most under-rated ski slopes. These are found across its Andean peaks, which reach for more than 6,400km. And there’s  fantastic skiing in central and eastern Europe to be had too; With hire costs and day passes coming in at about half the regular price, your average budget traveller should still have money to spare.

But if skiing isn’t your thing and you are on a budget, there are always more adventure sports to do.

Is the Euro Winter X Games going mainstream?

Mark P    Adventure Sports & Travel Thoughts     olympics, Skiing, Snowboarding, snowmobiling, winter x games

I guess it depends how you classify mainstream, although it could be argued the Winter X Games has lost some of its X-factor since the Olympics woke up to snowboarding in 1998.

More traditional Olympic disciplines have been around since the year dot (1924 to be exact). Snowboarding, however, is a relatively new sport; the first ever Winter X Games was in 1997, with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) taking snowboarding on its books a year later.

Before then, there was a clear division: regular Olympic sports one side, extreme sports the other. Although, hold on: Since when was luge not extreme? And as for ski-jumping, it’s completely off the richter.

So what does the Winter X Games bring that the Winter Olympics does not? Well, there are eight different competitions, these include Slopestyle, Ski and Snowboard SuperPipe and a demonstration event on snowmobiles – not sure this last one would make it past the IOC selection committee. read more