Visit our exhibitors and featured adventure providers for various information about their offerings, Adventure Talks, and Live Demos and in person activities.
 ExhibitorVisit a vendor booth for more information |
 Adventure Talks10-20 minute talks from thought leaders in various areas |
 Live Demossee demos and even try your hand with in person activities |
Visit our exhibitors and featured adventure providers for various information about their offerings, Adventure Talks, and Live Demos and in person activities.
| Exhibitor Visit a vendor booth for more information |
Adventure Talks 10-20 minute talks from thought leaders in various areas |
Live Demos see performances and even try your hand with in person activities |
Arrow Tag OC
Art Flying Aerial
Atlas Obscura Society Los Angeles
Bear Grylls Survival Challenge
Bikes and Hikes L.A.
Bob Gurr's Waltland Bus Tours
Brainy Actz
Camp Brave Trails
Cross Roads Escape Games
Cruise Planners
Exotics Racing
FT3 Tactical
Girls Who Hike L.A.
Haunted Orange County
Heritage Museum of Orange County
Lighspeed Saber League
Lively Schooner INC.
Monster VR
Na Hoku O Ka Lani and Moana Nui
OC All-Stars
OC Ghosts and Legends
Outdoor Journeys
OUE Skyspace LA
Pacific Blue Air
Peace Corps
Rock N Rope Adventures
S Factor
San Diego Cake Club & Show
Santa Barbara Adventure Company and Visit Santa Barbara
Sender One Climbing
Shoestring Adventures
Six-Pack of Peaks Challenge™
Shark Diver
South Coast Swords LLC
TravelNevada
The WAVES Project
Wilderness Trio
Wild West Steam Fest
Ziplines at Pacific Crest
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Arrow Tag OC
Arrow tag is dodgeball with bows and arrows! A safe and fun game for all ages. -
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Art Flying Aerial
Specializing in aerial circus classes and/or private lessons in Silks, Static Trapeze, Rope, Lyra, Hammock, Straps, & Spanish Web, AFA has a class for you! -
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Atlas Obscura Society Los Angeles
Adventure Talk: Discovering the Hidden Wonders of LA … and Beyond Sandi Hemmerlein, Field Agent and Interim Chapter Head from Atlas Obscura Society Los Angeles will lead an Adventure Talk and Q&A on the unique opportunities to explore strange and overlooked places in Southern California. Atlas Obscura Society is the real-world exploration arm of Atlas Obscura, the definitive guide to the world's wondrous and curious places. There's plenty out there to discover, so let's start looking! -
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Bear Grylls Survival Challenge
A new 4-mile outdoor survival challenge launching in Santa Clarita! Featuring a course designed by survival expert Bear Grylls to test your survival skills, speed, strength, and smarts! -
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Bikes and Hikes L.A.
Biking and Hiking tours of Los Angeles -
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Bob Gurr's Waltland Bus Tours
Join Disney Legend and Original Imagineer Bob Gurr for a day long luxury bus tour of local Walt Disney History in the L.A. area. -
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Brainy Actz
Brainy Actz is a real-life puzzle simulation, which is part of the latest trend in immersive adventures and team building activities called "escape rooms." The concept is simple – you and your team enter a room where you're presented a problem/situation that needs to be solved in order to advance further and further, until your task is completed. Can you escape before time runs out? Remember: Be quick. Be clever. Be brave. -
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Camp Brave Trails
Brave Trails provides lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning youth and their allies an innovative summer camp program that focuses on leadership and meaningful relationships. -
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Cross Roads Escape Games
Cross Roads Escape Games is a real life adventure game in Anaheim! Rated #1 in SoCal and top 3 in the nation, come experience a real life movie situation where you and your team race against the clock to escape! Feeling Sane? Check out the mini-escape room "The Asylum" in the exhibit hall and see how sane you really are! -
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Cruise Planners
Creating specialized, customized, culturally immersive opportunities to see the world not as a simple vacation, but as a one-of-a-kind, just for you experience. U by Uniworld and other travel adventures -
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Exotics Racing
Exotics Racing is the Ultimate Supercar Driving experience were we make your dream of driving an exotic car on a racetrack. -
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FT3 Tactical
FT3 Tactical is Orange County's Premier Indoor Shooting Range featuring 28 lanes, long rifles allowed, Range Safety Officer available to assist, we welcome fist time shooters, and offer various classes. -
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Girls Who Hike L.A.
Our mission at Girls Who Hike is to create a community of like-minded women who can connect, network, and discover together through our local trails. -
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Haunted Orange County
Haunted OC is Southern California’s Premier Source for year-round Haunted Entertainment and OC’s oldest and largest Ghost Tour company. -
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Heritage Museum of Orange County
HMOC is a cultural and natural history center focused on preserving, promoting, and restoring Orange County history. -
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Lighspeed Saber League
Lightspeed offers classes and competitions in the world's fastest light-based fencing. No choreography. Just speed, stamina, and the will to win. -
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Lively Schooner INC.
Lively Schooner INC. provides access to the waters of Newport Harbor and coastal Orange County aboard a beautiful vintage sailboat. -
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Monster VR
We create fun and engaging virtual and augmented reality experiences for marketing, enterprise, and entertainment. -
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Na Hoku O Ka Lani and Moana Nui
Instruction in the dances, music and culture of Hawaii, Tahiti, New Zealand and Samoa. Drumming. Luau Entertainment. Education. Workouts based on these dance forms -
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OC All-Stars
OC All-Stars is a fun and exciting facility that teaches ages 18-months all the way through adulthood! We specialize in cheer, dance, and tumbling classes! -
OC Ghosts and Legends
OC Ghosts and Legends specializes in Paranormal Research and acclaimed for their authentic ghost tours and haunted events -
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Outdoor Journeys
Outdoor Journeys encourages individuals to connect with the natural world through our fun and inclusive summer camp programs. We embrace uniqueness! -
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OUE Skyspace LA
OUE Skyspace LA is the tallest observation deck west of the Mississippi and home to the world’s first Skyslide. An all-glass slide on the exterior of the building that takes guests on a thrilling ride from the 70th floor to the 69th floor. -
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Pacific Blue Air
You can take the controls and soar above Los Angeles in our unique open cockpit aircraft. -
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Peace Corps
Live and work abroad making a difference. Peace Corps sends Volunteers to over 65 countries serving in education, health, community economic development, youth in development, agriculture, and environmental sectors. -
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Rock N Rope Adventures
Exposing climbers to amazing and breath-taking Californian sceneries in the Los Angeles and Malibu area, our mission is to provide a fun and safe environment for all ages. By focusing on these fundamental qualities, our friendly and knowledgeable staff will introduce you the outdoors as a welcoming place for both first-time and experienced climbers. -
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S Factor
We are a pole fitness studio that focuses on feminine movement and dance. -
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San Diego Cake Club & Show
San Diego Cake Club is volunteer based organisation which promotes and educates in the confectionery arts. Raises funds for other local charities via An Annual Cake and Sugar Art Show. -
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Santa Barbara Adventure Company and Visit Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara Adventure Co. Santa Barbara's number one outfitter! Channel Islands & Coastal Kayaking, SUP, Surf Lessons, Hiking, Teambuilding, Wine Tours & more! -
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Sender One Climbing
Sender One Climbing is home to world class indoor rock climbing, fitness, & yoga. We foster all types of climbers from beginner to expert while offering climbing classes, a training center, events, and more. Our community thrives on sharing our passions and climbing together - indoors and outdoors! -
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Shoestring Adventures
Shoestring Adventures offers guided weekend camping and backpacking adventures and a supportive community for anyone who wants to experience the outdoors. -
Six-Pack of Peaks Challenge™
The Six-Pack of Peaks Challenge™ brings people together around an epic goal: hike six big mountains, have fun, and do good along the way! -
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Shark Diver
Shark Diver's mission is to bring about a greater understanding of apex sharks, during an all-inclusive 5-day San Diego-to-Mexico adventure. -
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South Coast Swords LLC
South Coast Swords is a school for HEMA -- Historical European Martial Arts. We study 500 year old manuscripts and train in full contact fighting. -
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TravelNevada
TravelNevada is the state tourism department for Nevada. -
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The WAVES Project
The WAVES Project is a Non-Profit that uses the Platform of SCUBA and The Therapeutic value of water to help veterans with service connected injuries -
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Wilderness Trio
Wilderness Trio serves to take the hassle out of hiking. With itinerary planning, gear rentals and our staff of Adventure Specialist, well make sure your next adventure is high altitude and low stress! -
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Wild West Steam Fest
Wild West Steam Fest serves to celebrate two worlds merged – The Old West & Steampunk. -
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Ziplines at Pacific Crest
Zipline eco tour 75 miles from LA. Speeds up to 55 mph, heights up to 300 feet off the forest floor, lengths nearing 1,500 feet! -
Saturday, March 3, 2018
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Get Your Body Ready for Your Adventure! Kathy Flippin, Owner, Dynamic Touch Massage |
Is your adventure physically challenging? From walking the bazaars of Bombay, to running a marathon, you’re going to need to prepare your body for endurance to get the most out of your trip! Learn the top 10 things you need to do to get ready and stay strong to the finish, so your event will be the Best Adventure EVER! Includes strength training tips, and self-massage instructions to relieve pain and keep you going. Don’t let back, shoulder or leg soreness hold you back from your dreams! Presented by Kathy Flippin, massage therapist to USA Swimming at the London and Rio Olympic Games.
www.dynamictouchmassage.com
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15 Adventures In and Around Southern California Josh McNair, Travel Writer |
Josh is a travel writer and photographer that has been exploring California for over six years and will share 15 great places for adventures in and around the Southern California area. Come see if there is a new place you should explore during this talk and read more on his blog
www.CaliforniaThroughMyLens.com
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Secrets of Solo Culinary Travel from the Food Market Gypsy Susie Norris, Award-Wining Food and Travel Writer |
Traveling solo blends adventure and time for reflection. But how do you manage so much time alone? How do you find the best food spots in a strange city? How do you carve out time away from friends and family if you NEED to go on a group vacation? Join award-winning food and travel writer Susie Norris as she shares a few stories on culinary adventures and suggests top spots to visit and experience the best of regional culture and cuisine.
Susie Norris writes about food and culture. She taught baking at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts and ran an award-winning artisan chocolate business in Los Angeles for 10 years. Her books are CHOCOLATE BLISS (Random House/Celestial Arts, 2008) and HAND-CRAFTED CANDY BARS (with Susan Heeger, Chronicle Books, 2013). Her culinary travel blog, Food Market Gypsy, won the IACP Digital Media Award, 2016.
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Adventures in Imagination with Disney Legend Bob Gurr Bob Gurr, Imagineer and Disney Legend |
Bob shares his insights about one of the ultimate Disney adventures, Waltland, and his 40 years working with the Walt Disney Company. Bob is one of two remaining original imagineers hired by Walt Disney. The Tour is an amazing half-day journey significant Walt Disney landmarks and points of interest that played an important role in the life of Walt Disney himself. This Adventure Talk is presented by the Bob Gurr’s Waltland Bus Tour.
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Volunteer Service: The Greatest Adventure Joel Maguino, International Business Liaison |
The Peace Corps is a service opportunity for motivated changemakers to immerse themselves in a community abroad, working side by side with local leaders to tackle the most pressing challenges of our generation. Join Peace Corps for this Talk and learn how “adventurers” are changing lives the world over.
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Adventures in Mind Games Madison Rhoades, Cross Roads Escape Games |
Escape games are the latest craze and Madison Rhoades with Cross Roads Escape Games will be at AWE to show you why. Join her as she shares strategy and offers insights in mastering the escape. She might even provide some interesting clues for your next game adventure.
www.crossroadsescapegames.com
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Adventures for Girls Who Hike Sharron McBride, Founder, Girls Who Hike |
Join Sharron McBride as she shares the inspiration for a community of women who can connect, network and discover together through hiking local trails. Girls Who Hike is national group of 50,000 members who discuss trail conditions, buy/sell local used gear, discuss various topics about the great outdoors, receive recommendations on anything from waterfall hikes to new hiking poles, and more.
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Family Adventures for LBGTQ Camp Brave Trails |
Join friends from Camp Brave Trails to learn about the family camp programs available for LGBTQ adults and youth. The program focuses on leadership skills, community building, self-realization and service with the goal of supporting and empowering families. Brave Trails is a non-profit organization.
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Discovering the Hidden Wonders of LA … and Beyond Sandi Hemmerlein, Field Agent and Interim Chapter Head, Atlas Obscura Society Los Angeles |
Sandi Hemmerlein, Field Agent and Interim Chapter Head from Atlas Obscura Society Los Angeles will lead an Adventure Talk and Q&A on the unique opportunities to explore strange and overlooked places in Southern California. Atlas Obscura Society is the real-world exploration arm of Atlas Obscura, the definitive guide to the world’s wondrous and curious places. There’s plenty out there to discover, so let’s start looking!
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Ghost Stories from Orange County Cris August, Owner, OC Ghosts and Legends |
Grab a seat and get ready for a few of the great ghost stories from our friends at OC Ghosts and Legends. www.ocghostsandlegends.com
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Getting to the Top: The Six-Pack of Peaks Challenge Jeff Hester, Founder, Six-Pack of Peaks Challenge; Chief Adventure Officer, Social Adventures LLC |
Ever looked at the mountains in SoCal and wondered what it would be like to stand at the summit? Jeff describes why he created the Six-Pack of Peaks Challenge, sharing practical advice for successfully completing the challenge. Learn how to create a life full of adventure.
www.sixpackofpeaks.com/socal/
