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Annie Keyes, 41, Copper Mountain, CO
“I’m an extreme beginner,” says Annie Keyes with a laugh. She’s referring to her yoga skills, not the precarious location in Utah’s Canyonlands where she posed for this picture last fall. While most of her time in the desert is devoted to four-wheeling, hiking, and climbing, Annie likes to wake up with a morning walk and stretch. “You can never get enough of the views,” she says, “and yoga just makes me feel good.”
Paula Crago, 42, Portland, OR
A mother-daughter trip to Oregon’s Cannon Beach-you can see the town’s landmark Haystack Rock in the background-set the stage for this picture of 8-year-old Emily Crago. “We were experimenting with a new camera, and she really got skimboarding down that day,” says Paula, who skipped her usual kayaking and dune-running routine to lay in the surf for this action angle.
Lily Leung, 42, New York, NY
An Alpine start put Lily Leung about an hour from the summit of Mexico’s 18,490-foot Pico de Orizaba for this sunrise shot. As a native New Yorker, Lily first caught her “adventure bug” in Utah, but these days she squeezes three or four high-altitude trekking trips into every year. “It’s pretty far removed from the concrete jungle where I live,” she says. “My friends all think I’m crazy.
John Britton, 53, Boulder, CO
When he set up his camera, parked himself in front of the fire pits, and waited for the racers from last year’s Warrior Dash at Copper Mountain to come streaming past, photographer John Britton had his eyes peeled for his wife. He snapped several shots of her-with a caked-on Fu Manchu-style mud mustache-but his favorite shot of the day captured these gals who called themselves the Undie Warriors. “They had great expressions,” he says, “and it was just fun to be in a crowd of people in wacky moods.”
Sarah Reijonen, 26, Spokane, WA
One week into their seven-month trip around the world, Chris and Sarah Reijonen pitched their tent in Switzerland’s Bernese Alps. “Our car broke down when we arrived in Paris; we didn’t have much food so we ate goldfish crackers and almonds for dinner. It was a long hike,” says Sarah, emphasizing the word long, “but this was one of the most memorable moments of our entire trip.”
Sarah Reijonen, 26, Spokane, WA
One week into their seven-month trip around the world, Chris and Sarah Reijonen pitched their tent in Switzerland’s Bernese Alps. “Our car broke down when we arrived in Paris; we didn’t have much food so we ate goldfish crackers and almonds for dinner. It was a long hike,” says Sarah, emphasizing the word long, “but this was one of the most memorable moments of our entire trip.”
