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Screen name:

drewblair

Age:

Gender:

Male

If you must know:

I'm single

Travel status:

Traveling soon

Hometown:

Berkeley, CA

Currently in:

Oakland, CA

Favorite places I've been:

Middle Fork Salmon River, Idaho, Byron Bay and the Whitsunday Islands and the Blue Mountains, Australia, San Sebastian, Spain, Copper River, Alaska, Echo Lake, Stinson Beach, Wellington, New Zealand, Wrangell Mountains Alaska, Prince William Sound, Babine River British Columbia

Places I want to go to:

Backcountry skiing in Sonora Pass area, Paddling in Central and South America as well as skiing, Southeast Asia basically everywhere I haven't been which is....the rest of the world

About me:

Bay Area kid who enjoys everything this place has to offer. Love to ride my bike, ski, and paddle.

Profile URL:

http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/drewblair

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I'm fired up on:

screaming down a mountain and powder face shots. Seeing the look on people's faces when they finally understand how to enter or exit an eddy in a whitewater kayak. Live music, bourbon, grilled cheese sandos with avo on top, taco trucks, seeing new far away places...meeting folks along the way...the journey...type 2 fun

Tunes I rock out to:

too much to list cuz I like everything from avant garde funk jazz like Garag A Trois to hardcore like Bane and everything in between. Some favorites include Pearl Jam, Bob Dylan, My Morning Jacket, Flaming Lips, the Allman Brothers, Mr. Marley of course, Miles Davis and the rest of the crew, Outkasts, Yo Yo Ma, Manu Chao....I seriously could write 50 pages about the music I like.

Travel style:

I like to travel light. By myself is the fastest and most worry free but traveling with good like minded folks is always a bonus and very fun.

Quote:

I have two...
Eventually all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's greatest flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. - Norman Maclean

also...
Get busy livin' or get busy dyin' - Red

Sports I do:

whitewater kayaking, skiing, cycling

Favorite artist(s):

Bob Dylan...check out the Bob Dylan Complete Lyrics Book and you'll know

Favorite books:

Desert Solitaire, The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey, East of Edan - John Steinbeck

Who I'd like to meet on my travels:

anyone who likes bourbon...

I want to make a difference by:

Seeing as many beautiful natural occurring phenomenons as possible and then telling people about them so that they get jealous and go see it themselves

Languages spoken, other than English:

un poquito Espanol

I felt the most immersed in a foreign culture when:

sleeping under the stars in the Australian bush with some Aborigines

Why I travel:

it is humbling

Ideal place to watch the sunrise:

Yosemite Half Dome

Ideal place to watch the sunset:

Stinson Beach CA or Prince WIlliam Sound

Before I die I'd like to:

too many goals...paddle the Grand Canyon, climb some 14ers, heli ski in Alaska, backpack Patagonia, paddle the Mekong Delta, thru-hike the PCT and the CDT

Let's collaborate:

anyone who has ideas about getting disadvantaged youth into outdoor sports let me know..i need some help

My links:

www.kayaking.com
www.summitforsomeone.org

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by Ross | 2007/03/01

Yo! I'm hovering in the hotel lobby of some place in squaw right now, pilfering internet, but wanted to give you a ski report. PHEnom! Waist-deep powder day at squaw today. Get up here this finde! My b-day, sportdrinking...holla

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the lows in Pincrest CA

By drewblair | Location: United States | 01/15/07 | Pics: 0

Pinecrest California was the destination for the weekend. My roomate Jason has a cabin in the funky old lake community. I am somewhat familiar with tha area being that I drunkenly stumbled the surrounding woods for two summers working at Camp Blue of the UC Alumni Lair of the Bear while attending Cal....

Bringing in the new Year with two amazing concerts....

By drewblair | Location: United States | 01/01/07 | Pics: 0

Anyone who loathes the NYE high expectation shenannigans as much as I do will enjoy this. Luckily this year I didn't give in to some lame house party with goody bags and headache food. My buddy's 25th birthday was the 30th. He and I had planned to go to the Flaming Lips NYE Eve show at Bill Graham...

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the lows in Pincrest CA

Bringing in the new Year with two amazing concerts....