Events

Video: Ruta de las Iglesias 2008

Feel the “Ruta de las iglesias” race from a runner’s perspective. That night, only two minutes before leaving home, I decided to take my video camera. Of course it meant that I couldn’t run as fast as I could because I had to share a little more with the people, looking for the surrounding churches, [...]

29Sep2008 | Carolina | 0 comments | Continued

Video: Climbing Cayambe

One year ago I had one of my best birthday parties ever, my friends organized a lunch in the refuge or the Cayambe volcano. They invited family and friends. They even brought a birthday cake, candles and ballons. It was so much fun!, they knew -JOse knew- what would I enjoy the most [...]

26Sep2008 | Carolina | 0 comments | Continued

Video: Ruta de las iglesias.

What we in spnish call “la previa” from the 10k race that was held in the night of august 30, 2008, in the narroww streets of San Franciso de Quito.
We will have more videos comming soon..

20Sep2008 | Carolina | 0 comments | Continued

Join Barefoot Expeditions at the FITE (Feria Internacional de Turismo).

Barefoot Expeditions will have a big presence at the biggest tourism event in Ecuador. This year the FITE (Feria Internacional de Turismo) takes place in Guayaquil. We will be collaborating with Vertical, a company based in Guayaquil that promotes adventure sports.
We are going to run a fam trip for folks that would be interested in [...]

3Sep2008 | Carolina | 0 comments | Continued

Ecuador Whitewater Kayaking National Tournament 2008 | Results

Most of the commercial whitewater sports (rafting, kayaking) activities in Ecuador are held in the rivers close to the cities of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Baños or Tena. But the Second National Slalom & Down River Kayak Championships held in Bucay, in the Chimbo river was a good opportunity to explore new [...]

29Jul2008 | Carolina | 0 comments | Continued

Sat July 26th: Rafting with South American Explorers Club

Once again Barefoot Expeditions is organizing a rafting trip with the South American Explorers Clubhouse in Quito. It will be in the Toachi & Blanco rivers, in the western side on fhe Andes, on the way to the coast. It is a class III (big volume water) river. Feel free to contact us through this [...]

22Jul2008 | Carolina | 1 comment | Continued

Ecuador | Whitewater Kayaking National Tournament 2008.

The Second National Slalom & Down River Kayak Championships (Ecuador chapter) organized by the “Federacion Ecuatoriana de Canotaje” will be held in Bucay, Guayas, Ecuador on July 19th, 2008. The chosen river is the Chimbo, a class III river. It is not a commercial river, so not many people know how to run it [...]

11Jul2008 | Diego | 1 comment | Continued

Rafting with Street Children. A great experience for everyone

Having a business without helping people is not fair, it wouldn’t be a responsible business practice.
Last friday (June 20th, 2008) Barefoot Expeditions contacted a group of volunteers that help street kids. We met 30 kids that work in the streets of Quito selling candy, shining shoes, blowing fire….
In this meeting, the people from Barefoot Expeditions showed [...]

2Jul2008 | Carolina | 1 comment | Continued

Ivan Vallejo, learning from his life story.

Last week at the climbing club of the “Escuela Politécnica Nacional”, Ivan Vallejo showed us some pictures, not from his latest adventures in the eight thousands, but from his first mountaineering steps in the Ecuadorian Andes where he climbed some really amazing routes -some of them have not been repeated yet-.
I appreciate very much the [...]

2Jul2008 | Carolina | 0 comments | Continued

The Rafting Trip with the South American Explorers Club was fantastic!

Whitewater Rafting trips with lots of folks is lots of fun! The Rafting trip happened on May 31st, 2008 (original post) with people from the South American Explorers Club (SAEC-Quito House). Twenty two people from the SAEC-Quito joined us on this adventure. We also had a group of 12 college students ftom a Tourism [...]

10Jun2008 | Carolina | 2 comments | Continued

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