This posting is from Adam, one of our HybridLife Radio show hosts.
When KEEN announced that “Recess is Back” earlier this month, I had to giggle to myself just a little bit. They want
ed Heather and I to share with HybridLife Radio listeners, recess moments that we have during the week. Prior to this announcement, I had been training constantly for my new day job as a tour guide, or “Resident Expert” for Portland Walking Tours. For this job, I’ll be strolling around Portland telling people about the history, culture, and food and drink of the town. I thought to myself “My job is recess!”
I led my first official tour not too long ago and one couple definitely stuck out (in a good way) for a few reasons. For starters, they were walking their collapsible bikes around with them on the tour. And secondly, they were both sporting some heavily used KEEN Newports. Once the tour was over, we had a chance to chat about Portland, KEENs, and also those fancy bikes they took with them on the tour. It turns out they sold everything they own to take an open-ended bike tour across America. They have a pretty fascinating story to tell, and you can check it out at www.pathlesspedaled.com.
I would say that overall, my first tour went as well as I could have hoped. I had a sunny day and met a great bunch of people; some of which are testing the very limits of recess and what it means. It’s going to be good summer.
For more info about Laura Crawford and Russ Roca, and their journey across America on bikes and trains, check out their website, http://pathlesspedaled.com/
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Het Amerikaanse Keen Footwear is hard op weg Europa te veroveren en dat doen ze niet alleen met een uitgebreide schoenen- en tassencollectie, maar vooral ook met hun inspirerende HybridLife filosofie waarin create, play, care de peilers zijn. Deel jij deze filosofie, deel het dan ook met ons en maak wekelijks, tot eind januari 2011, kans op schoenen of laarzen. Bovendien worden aan het eind van de wedstrijd drie grote winnaars uitgekozen.
Monday Moment
HybridLife is op heel veel manieren te interpreteren. Voor de een is het iedere dag op de fiets naar het werk, voor de ander is het tijd vrijmaken om leuke dingen te doen met familie of vrienden, het doen van vrijwilligerswerk, reizen, het onderhouden van een stadstuin, het maken van muziek, zo veel mogelijk buitenspelen of afval een nieuw leven geven. Hoe combineer jij al deze zaken? Kortom; Share your HybridLife met ons.
Maak er een foto van en stuur die naar natasha@getsalt.com o.v.v. Monday Moment. Elke maandag (tot eind januari 2011) kiezen we een winnaar.
Wat kun je winnen
Wekelijks op maandag wordt het beste ‘Monday Moment’ beloond met een paar Keen’s. Welk paar in welke week wordt weggeven, vind je op de Salt Facebook pagina in het fotoalbum Keen HybridLife. Behalve weekwinnaars worden begin februari 2011 ook nog eens drie ‘overall winaars’ gekozen. Zij gaan met een groot Keen productpakket, bestaande uit een paar schoenen, een tas en een paar sokken, naar huis én winnen bovendien een fotoworkshop van een van de beste nature & wildlife fotografen van Nederland, Jasper Doest. Jasper maakt verbluffend mooi fotowerk, van elk beeld op zijn website spat een ongekende schoonheid af.
Laat je recht in je hart raken op doest-photography.com
This past summer we opened our first-ever retail store below our office in Portland, Oregon. We devoted a section of the KEEN Garage to kids — an interactive space where kids can draw. Here are a few of their creative ideas posted in the Garage.
How do we turn our passion into our job, and how do we turn our job into our passion? In the past two months I have been pursuing that goal, while training to be a field instructor at Teton Science Schools in Jackson, WY. I moved here April 4th after enjoying a winter chasing Wasatch powder at Alta. Was I ready to quit skiing? I probably never will be, but fortunately spring in the Tetons frequently means powder days. With Teton Pass just 20 minutes up the road, sunset runs after work have been a frequent occurrence.
Winter Memories: Booting up the Suicide Coulior on Mt Superior. Alta, Utah
Sunset from the back of a pickup truck, like it should be. Teton Pass, WY
Care
Despite all of the skiing the majority of my time in Jackson has been spent in the field sharing the incredible Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem with students visiting Teton Science Schools. Each day we load buses, drive into Grand Teton National Park and spend the whole day walking around the woods; it’s experiential education at its finest. I am able to share my passion for the outdoors and the natural world with enthusiastic grade school kids; it’s one of the most rewarding things in the world.
Studying Old Man’s Beard with the students
Investigating Moose Scat
Snowshoeing with a field group at Taggart Lake
Create
As spring moves on towards summer I have also been hard at work trying to adapt my passion for gardening into the hostile Jackson climate. I secured a plot at the Jackson Hole Community Garden and with a little help from my friends weeded and planted during a snowstorm. I will be taking field groups to visit it and track its progress throughout the summer.
Finn planting carrots
I have never had the pleasure of planting a garden in a snowstorm. It involves numb hands. Pictured: Finn Telles
I’ve learned a lot about passion in the last two months. Jackson is an amazing place to pursue it and an essential part of that pursuit is to pass it on to others. The things we love are nothing without others to share them with.
While on the tour, Rick is interviewing people Livin’ the Hybridlife, such as Mike Lowman of Lander, Wyoming.
About the Playground Tour
The Playground Tour, which was named after the “Playground Trail,” a 5,000-mile tour of twelve National Parks west of the Rockies that was taken by a group of Americans in 1920. Their mission was to generate awareness and support for better roads to facilitate easier access to recreational areas.
The Playground Tour is an attempt to recreate this tour by bicycle. The mission is to raise money and awareness for the United States Bike Route System. Rick is teaming up with the Adventure Cycling Association and will be observing and documenting the difficulty of travel and roads conditions for cycling throughout the ride.
Interactive Playground Tour map – click here
Daily update from Rick – click here
The Monday Montage – Discover Hybridlife and the ways that the KEEN community creates, plays and cares…we’ll be featuring a new video each Monday for the next 5 weeks. Here is a taste of what’s to come…
We recently created a new video as a way of introducing KEEN, HybridLife and the new Spring/Summer 2010 products to individuals who work at retailer stores where our shoes, bags and socks are sold. The video captures the many faces of KEEN, including our CEO James Curleigh, product developers and several others around the organization.
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