Ladies, stop sitting at home looking through your Instagram feed wishing you were “that girl”. BE that girl! Take your adventure into your own hands. If you let fear of the unknown consume you, then you will never know what greatness lies in the outdoors. I believe by properly preparing yourself, there is no destination that cannot be reached by a group of women, or even a woman trekking out into the wild on her own. By preparing yourself, you CAN DO THIS! It's like this; Know your trail. Know your waterway. Know your limits.
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We hope your offseason is going well. As we move towards our first race in April, the team here at EKI wanted to highlight some of the changes we made in order to qualify for the series and the class system.
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The last time I camped out in Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area was the early Spring of 2016. I packed one insulated jacket and that was about it. No gloves, hats, or base layers. After suffering through a snowy night in March, I learned to pack better for the cold.
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Last month, Explore Kentucky set up a humble little aid station at Mile 78 of the Chris & Amanda Chaney of Ascensionist Events' Red River Gorge Mountain Bike 100—a gnarly upstart 100-mile mountain bike race. Bursting with snacks, water, & EKI Swag, we hunkered down for over 80 racers all day long.
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We're excited to announce our partnership with Bluegrass Cellular, a technology company headquartered in Elizabethtown, Kentucky that delivers nationwide cellular services to over one million people across 34 counties in Central Kentucky. To kick off this partnership we're collaborating with Bluegrass to offer four free Smartphone Photography classes led by founder of #ExploreKentucky movement & EKI Director, Gerry James, at select Bluegrass Cellular retail locations.
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All in all everyone involved made the Odyssey a smashing success, coupled with Mother Nature for blessing us with blue skies, flat water, and relatively no wind!
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As we were pulling together the idea for the Kentucky Waterman Series, one of our most ardent supporters of the concept was Pat Dour, owner of Southern Paddlesports; a performance paddlesports company based in Taylorsville, Kentucky.
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Water Week will take place March 19-25, 2017 and will include events across the state to promote and preserve Kentucky's vast network of waterways.
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When your body finally tells you to eat, make your way to one of the gorge’s staple spots. Grab pizza at Miguel’s or a burger at Red River Rock House. Fill your empty stomach and forget to count the carbs, the calories, the grams of sugar in your Ale 8. Meet the people seated with you — the group of businessmen from California, the RRG regulars, the guys who live a neighborhood over from you.
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Since the middle of January, KyMBA has been cutting the Port Oliver Trail, dubbed “Twisted Oliver.” The four-mile trail weaves through 25 acres of woods at Barren River Lake, adjacent to Port Oliver. As the name suggests, Twisted Oliver snakes through the trees with switchbacks and sharp berms for a fast and fun ride.
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We know that watersports can thrive in Kentucky and we plan to keep working in 2017 with the Kentucky Waterman Series, a 6-10 race season.
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New year, new threads. We have three new tees coming to the EKI shop, available for pre-order now!
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In August of 2016 the Vertical Excape Facebook page made a very cryptic post many months after announcing the plans for a Bowling Green location. It was an unremarkable photo of a warehouse. There was no caption, no context, just the structure. To most it didn’t mean anything, but to the underground climbing community of Bowling Green, it was huge. The two-tone, metal building attached to an existing fitness center would be home to Bowling Green’s first climbing gym.
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We are proud to announce that the Explore Kentucky Initiative was featured in the Kentucky State Nature Preserve Commission’s (KSNPC) biennium report to the governor and the Kentucky state legislature. KSNPC is a state agency that was created in 1976 to protect the best remaining natural areas in the state, to preserve Kentucky's natural heritage, and to help citizens recognize our dependency on healthy ecosystems.
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