NEW YORK, January 16, 2001 - Bill and Diane Greer, co-founders and visionaries of outdoor recreation and active travel site GORP.com, have decided that a good way to determine what adventure enthusiasts are looking for in 2001 is to find out first hand. And there's no better way for the Greers to do so than to join a GORPtravel excursion this March to the tropical rainforest in Costa Rica - Central America's best-kept secret - so they can interact with fellow travelers while sharing tips and insights of their own past journeys.

Rated a five-star adventure by past travelers, this trip includes accommodations at an oceanside tent camp on the outskirts of Corcovado National Park, a family farm lodge 7,200 feet above sea-level and camping on a river bank. View the rainforest from a different perspective by hiking through the Costa Rican jungle to a tree canopy platform, located 115 feet above the forest floor, in search of white hawks, howler monkeys, anole lizards and pygmy squirrels. Trek down Cerro de la Muerte mountain and through a 600-year-old oak forest. Whitewater raft down on the Pacuare River and observe the sights and sounds of this beautiful wilderness canyon.

This special trip marks the first time that Bill and Diane have accompanied their audience on a GORPtravel trip. As avid outdoor enthusiasts, the Greers founded GORP.com (a.k.a. Great Outdoor Recreation Pages) in 1995 to provide adventurers with an easy and efficient way to research trips and excursions. Since then, GORP has evolved into the leading Internet site dedicated to outdoor recreation and adventure travel, offering more than 200,000 pages of encyclopedic content and a full-service booking feature with a database of 4,000 trips.

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