Extreme Green! Your Guide to Environmentally Friendly Extreme Sports

We found seven lesser-known extreme sports with little carbon footprints.  So if you are an adrenaline junkie with a mind for Mother Earth and an inkling to make some nutty memories, read on:

1. Horse Surfing – Got a shore line?  Got a Horse?  Got some rope?  Perfect.  Simply tow yourself behind a running horse and catch some killer waves.  It’s like wakeboarding, only instead of 200 hp speed boat you are just using, well, a horse.
2. Wife Carrying – it is exactly what it sounds like.  Originating in Finland the sport is basically a race filled with obstacles while you carry your significant other.
3. Bog Snorkling – Snorkling in a bog.  A murky, weedy thick brown bog race.  In Wales where the world championships are held it rarely gets above 50 degrees racers are only powered by a pair of flippers.  Bring a wetsuit, and some sanitizer.
4. Chasing Cooper’s Hill Cheese – For over 200 years people have been chasing a wheel of cheese down Cooper’s Hill near Gloucester, England.  So if you like cheese, and falling down a hill, this one’s for you.
5. Shin Kicking – As a part of Cotswold Olimpick Games, in Cotswold, England shin kicking has been around since the early 1600.  Simply hold on to your opponents lapels and start kicking.  No equipment required.
6. Parkour – aka free running or l’art du deplacement (art of movement).  Traceures, or those who practice parkour, try to get from point A to point B as fast, creatively and fluidly as possible.  All you need is a solid pair of shoes, an urban environment, a sense of gymnastics and some good health insurance, concrete is hard folks.
7. Free Solo Climbing – rock climbing without all the unnecessary gadgets, you know like rope.  One slip and you go tumbling down a rock face.  Climbing shoes and nerves of steel are all that’s need.

Of course while you are kicking the shins out of each other or manically chasing a wheel of cheese, remember to always stay hydrated with Hydro Flask.