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N8tv Adventures looking at partnership
B y L e s lie M itts
Spilyay Tymoo
N8tv Adventures may start
seeing additional business from
a potential partnership with a
C alifornia-based adventure
travel company.
Brenda Williams said N8tv
Adventures hosted a trip for
staff from Optical Edge Adven
tures, which is based in Santa
Monica, California.
Right now N8tv Adventures
offers guided kayaking and river
boarding trips, and may poten
tially begin offering mountain
biking trips pending approval,
Williams said.
They have also started host
ing groups in a teepee at Indian
Head Park.
Chris A shford, C EO and
founder of Optical Edge Adven
tures, said he first found N8tv
Adventures after doing a search
on the social networking website
www.myspace.com.
Optical Edge does business
w ith com panies in Bend,
A shford explained, and they
wanted to expand options for
their travelers in Central O r
egon.
It was through N8tv Adven
tu re s’ M yspace page that
Ashford came into contact with
Randy N athan, owner of the
local adventure company.
Optical Edge Adventures is
an adventure travel company
specializing in multi-destination
and multi-activity vacations.
The staff develops relation
ships with companies featuring
activities that appeal to the ad
venture traveler and compile
itineraries specific to their clients’
desires.
The adventure travel com-
There is a huge market for to set up the new teepee at In
eco-tourism within the travel dian Head Park.
“They get to learn a lot,”
industry, Ashford said.
The staff at N 8tv Adven Williams said of the youth work
tures prefers to host groups of ers—including how to serve as
four to eight people, Williams ambassadors for the tribes.
That may also include a trip
said, because it has less o f an
to the M useum at W arm
impact on the land.
Plus, Williams added, “It Springs, Williams said, so they
can try to look at their culture
gives a more personal touch.”
This summer N8tv Adven from an outsider’s perspective.
“They’ve grown up with it, so
tures is also employing two sum
mer youth w orkers through they’re used to it,” Williams ex
Workforce Developments^—and plained.
“A lot of people don’t under
depending on how much busi
Courtesy photo.
ness increases throughout the stand what its like to be Indian,”
Chris Ashford of Optical Edge Adventures went river boarding
season, they could potentially Williams explained.
with N8tv Adventures during his trip to Warm Springs.
“Most o f them ask a million
hire a few more, Williams said.
The youth workers are help q u estio n s,” W illiams said.
ing with activities like kayaking, “They’re curious about what life
pany leads trips to areas such as tivities like river boarding.
“Its very surreal,” Ashford and have even been very ben on a reservation is like.”
Catalina Island, Moab, ,Utah;
For m ore inform ation on
Sun Valley, Idaho; Sonoma, Cali said of the moonlight kayaking eficial in terms of getting new
N 8 tv
A dventures,
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fornia; Ivins, Utah; and Central trip. “Its more of a heady ex aspects of the business going.
One worker is very experi www.n8tvadventures.com or call
perience.”
Oregon.
Ashford also had the chance enced at setting up teepees, Wil 553-1200.
The company uses a char
tered aircraft to transport their to go on his first fly fishing trip liams said, and has been helping
clients to their destinations and and was. quite proud of the 16-
depart at the convenience o f the inch fish he caught.
It would be especially benefi
traveler.
According to the O ptical cial to work with N8tv Adven
Edge website: “Exceptional cus tures because of the knowledge
tomer service, convenience and o f owners Randy Nathan and
flexibility separate us from our Brenda Williams, Ashford said.
In Ashford’s opinion, “Randy
competition.”
Ashford said partnering with is very in tune with what’s going
N8tv Adventures would mean on in the community and is very
bringing small, exclusive groups willing to share.”
“It’s been great just learning
from California to participate in
about
the culture and the com
an excursion with the Warm
munity and also the challenges,”
Springs company.
The trips could also poten Ashford added.
Partnering with N 8tv Adven
tially include a cultural aspect,
tures
would also give their trav
Williams said, like a salmon bake.
R iverbend G uide Services elers a chance to explore eco-
would also partner with them to tourism, Ashford said, because
N8tv Adventures strives to cre
offer fishing trips.
During the trip for Optical ate as litde environmental im
Edge Adventures staff, Williams pact as possible.
According to Ashford, “You
added, they went on a moonlight
kayaking tour in addition to ac don’t see that all the time.”
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a new name that no longer
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Ashland on the 1,800-acre
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owned by Scott Young and
Sulara James.
The couple applied for
an official name in March
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Indian friend, R o b ert
Greygrass, told them that
many consider the term
squaw derogatory.
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