Snowboarding
Becky Pepprock, 18
Wisconsin
First, grab your board and a towel.
Swipe off the board, clean and baby it
like it's a child.
Carefully set the board and your boots in
the backseat of the car.
Drive to Little Switzerland,
meet all your friends
at the top of the hill. Wait
for the session to start, at the top of the
hill. While all the snow is being re-spread
and looks perfect.
Be the first one to go down,
on the fresh snow.
And glide like you're flying,
all through the season.
Taking It to the Extreme
Beautiful scenery and campfires might be enough for some people, but these incredible women not only enjoy the fresh air, they break records and bring home medals, too!
Surf's Up! Layne Beachley has been a pro-surfer since the age of 16, and she's been making a big splash for women surfers ever since. Known as the best female surfer in history, the 34-year-old Australian has won six consecutive world titles and had 29 wins on the World Championship Tour. Also, Layne rode the largest wave ever surfed by a woman—50 feet high!
Still Crazy After All These Years:Tina Basich is considered the "Godmother of Snowboarding" because the 37-year-old has been snowboarding since it was barely considered a sport in 1986. Over the years, Tina has competed and won in the highest level of Big Air division of the Winter X and ESPN X Games held for extreme sports. As if that's not cool enough, she also wrote the book Pretty Good for a Girl: The Autobiography of a Snowboarding Pioneer, and co-founded the group Boarding for Breast Cancer.
Hanging by a Thread: Katie Brown started rock climbing at age 13 and by the time she was 17 she was being called one of the world's best female sports climbers. In her teens, Katie won the Junior Nationals, the World Junior Championships, the World Cup, and the very prestigious Arco Invitational. Now in her 20s, she continues to scale some of the most challenging climbing points around the world.
Take Me to the River: Ruth Gordon competed in the first annual Freestyle World Cup of Kayaking in 2006. A year before, she became one of the first women to perfect a kayak front flip, called a flatwater loop, after almost two years of trying.
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Do have an outdoor adventure you would like to achieve some day? What would it be?
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