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A Ghost of a Chance | Alf Alderson | United States, Idaho, Silver City
This is everyone’s idea of the classic Hollywood cowboy town - the clapboard houses that line dusty streets, the whitewashed old schoolhouse
BC Rider | Alf Alderson | Canada, British Columbia, Kelowna
Ski conditions that most skiers can only dream about, and the kind of skiing and boarding secret that everyone wants first of all to discover, and then to keep to themselves
Band on the Run | Alf Alderson | France, Pays Basque, Vitoria-Gasteiz
If you consider that surfers and musicians would probably make a strong showing in a millennium list of the ten most unreliable types of people in the world - well, it was never going to be an easy ride
Bear Necessities | Alf Alderson | United States, Colorado, Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains have some of the wildest and most spectacular hiking on the planet – and wildlife to match
Bobbin' Along | Alf Alderson | France, French Alps, Le Roche
Ever since I was a kid I'd wanted to have a go on a bobsleigh run. Just watching it on TV I could imagine the icy wind against your face and the stomach churning rush
California Cruising | Alf Alderson | United States, California, San Francisco
There are many and various ways to start a cycling holiday, and pedalling into a hurricane is not one of them
Castles in the Sand | Alf Alderson
Ten of the best castles selected from the hundreds dotted all around the UK’s coastline
Chamtastic | Alf Alderson | France, French Alps, Chamonix
It takes quite a feat of the imagination to believe people have climbed, skied, boarded and paraglided off pretty much every summit you see
The world's a pretty big place, and two-thirds of it is made up of sea water, so it might seem a little strange that some people regard the oceans as being too crowded for their liking
Cwm This Way | Alf Alderson | United Kingdom, Wales, Knighton
As I trudged past the Arthurian landscape around Glaslyn Lake in mid-summer drizzle it wasn’t hard to imagine a band of his medieval warriors emerging from the gloom
Deep in British Columbia | Alf Alderson | Canada, British Columbia, Rossland
Any mountain that can boast some of the best skiing in BC can boast some of the best skiing in the world
Die Happy | Alf Alderson | Canada, British Columbia, Chilcotin Mountains
As the helicopter comes in to land there's a flurry of activity from the by now adrenalin-charged skiers within, pulling on gloves, adjusting goggles
Going Underground | Alf Alderson | United Kingdom, Wales, Brecon
We were scrabbling, crawling, shuffling, scratching, creeping and butting our way along one of the labyrinth of passageways in Eglwys Faen cave
Going with the Flow | Alf Alderson | United Kingdom, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire
And if a bunch of school kids could do it, I was bloody sure I could - a thought I was to reflect upon somewhat ruefully a few days later
Idaho was recently awarded a Grade A by IMBA for the quality of its bike riding – the only place in the world to achieve the top mark
Ground Shaker | Alf Alderson | Hawaii, Hawaii, Oahu
You can feel the ground shake when a big wave breaks at Pipeline, the classic wave of Old Spice ads - in fact it was the location for the original ad
Hanging in the Air | Alf Alderson | Mexico, Baja California and the Pacific Northwest, Creel
There's a point on the Chihuahua-Pacifico Railroad when you appear to be hanging in the air - which is not an easy feat for several hundred tons of locomotive and carriage
Heliski in the Land of Fire and Ice | Alf Alderson | Russian Federation, Kamtchatka, Kuriles
It’s impossible not to notice the distinctly minimalist interior of the craft, which makes Ryanair’s offerings seem luxurious. One of the helicopters we used was literally held together in places by string
Hidden Pyrenean Pleasures | Alf Alderson | France, Midi-Pyrenees, Cauterets
Although less craggy and somewhat lower than the Alps, the Pyrenees provide fine cross-country skiing and the chance to get away from the crowded pistes
Ice, Ice Baby | Alf Alderson | France, French Alps, Tignes
Ice diving is one of the latest options being offered to non-claustrophobic thrillseekers who for one reason or another find themselves kicking their heels in Tignes
If the Shoe Fits | Alf Alderson
One of the best things about snowshoeing is the chance it offers to get away from it all and enjoy winter alpine landscapes in solitude and silence
In the Blood | Alf Alderson | United Kingdom, Wales, Pembrokeshire
Any surf traveller with a leaning towards more esoteric destinations should make the time to cross the Severn Bridge, confuse themselves trying to pronunce the place names, and head for one or two of the better breaks
Italy's Iron Trails | Alf Alderson
Via ferrata translates as ‘iron way’, which refers to the iron rungs and ladders and steel hawsers that provide ‘protection’ on these airy mountain scrambles and climbs
Joining the Bahamian Crazy Gang | Alf Alderson | Bahamas, North Islands, Eleuthera
In theory it's very easy to spend time doing nothing in The Bahamas - after all this is where the hammock was invented - so it should have been no problem for us to enjoy a day working hard at relaxing
Kayaking Around Cortez | Alf Alderson | Mexico, Baja California and the Pacific Northwest, Baja California
For the kind of adventure I was embarking on, a kayak was the only way to go - not only can it get into places where nothing else can, any idiot can use one
Living in the Past | Alf Alderson | United Kingdom, Wales, Pembrokeshire
About a thousand years ago a popular book of the time, The Mabinogion, described Pembrokeshire with the phrase 'gwlad hud a lledrith' - 'The Land of Mystery and Enchantment'
Lost in Bilbao | Alf Alderson | Spain, Basque (Pais Vasco), Bilbao
Think of Bilbao these days and chances are you’ll think of the Guggenheim Museum. Try finding it though…
Mountain Treasure | Alf Alderson | France, Pays Basque, St Engrace Valley
This is a part of the Pyrenees that sees few visitors despite its undoubted loveliness - and please don’t all rush there at once now I’ve said that
North of the Border | Alf Alderson | Canada, Nova Scotia, Halifax
You know you’re not in normal surf territory when the road sign beside the surf shop warns of ‘Blowing Snow’
Pole Position | Alf Alderson | United Kingdom, Wales, Snowdonia
Nordic walking is the new cross-training technique from Scandinavia that puts a whole new slant on the gentle art of placing one foot in front of the other
Quality Cymru | Alf Alderson | United Kingdom, Wales, Gower
The Gower Peninsula has some of the best surfing in Britain and it’s largely devoid of the hype and crowds of Cornwall and Devon
RV in the Rockies | Alf Alderson
Trucker’s cap? Check. Country music cd? Check. Chewing tobacco? Hey, enough already – you can go too far with the American road trip thing
Real Surfers, Real Surfing | Alf Alderson | United Kingdom, Devon and Cornwall, Newquay
If your idea of surfing involves sitting in front of a cathode ray tube, you could do your body and soul a few favours by flicking the ‘off’ button, getting up off the sofa and heading to the coast to try the real thing instead
Ride On | Alf Alderson | United Kingdom, South West England, Somerset
Real mountains are few and far between in Britain, but should you decide to take your mountain bike into what little wild country we have you’ll be pleasantly surprised
Just what is it about the Bore that's so fascinating? It's actually a combination of factors that attract surfers to the world's longest wave
Rocky Mountain Diary | Alf Alderson | United States, Idaho, Coeur d’Alene
Alf Alderson reports back from a road trip to the Rockies in Idaho
Size Matters | Alf Alderson | United States, California, San Francisco
For a select few surfers, winter is the time of year they really look forward to, when the big swells arrive and they can challenge themselves up against waves the size of buildings
Snowdonia and the Lakes: Surfing and Hiking | Alf Alderson
Needless to say, having postponed my ascent of the hills to go surfing in the sunshine, I awoke next day to find low cloud and showers scattering themselves across the mountains
The End of the Road | Alf Alderson | Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia
The name alone, which translates as Land of Fire, is enough to have Indiana Jones rushing to book his ticket - indeed, visitors from Charles Darwin to Bruce Chatwin have described their fascination with the place
The Gift of the Gab | Alf Alderson | Ireland, Southwest (Kerry & Cork), Great Blasket Island
If you take the time to read one or more of the Blasket writers it doesn’t take too much imagination to transport yourself back 75 years or so and realise just how remote the island would have been then
The Midweek Breaks | Alf Alderson | United Kingdom, Devon and Cornwall, Widemouth
Take a demountable to Cornwall for a midweek break in search of a midweek break (as in surf)
Too Much of a Good Thing? | Alf Alderson | France, Pays Basque, Biarritz
I've paid two visits to Pays Basque in the last couple of years, and each time I've been surprised at the way the area seems to have avoided the hurly-burly of the modern tourist trade
Where the Jungle Meets the Sea | Alf Alderson | Costa Rica, Pacific Coast, Puerto Viejo
Impenetrable forest, the white spray of cataracts tumbling through the greenery across distant hillsides, titanium-bright blue morpho butterflies bobbing past you