NEW YORK, June 9, 2000 - Kayaking around the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, hiking the cloud forests of Costa Rica, horseback riding across the remote Yellowstone Meadows, cycling through Fintan's Kingdom in Ireland: it's not too late to celebrate summer with savings on great outdoor recreation vacations. GORP.com, the leading Internet site dedicated to outdoor recreation and adventure travel, has more than two dozen "Hot Deals" on active vacations for the next few months.

"Even though we're already into June, it's not too late to plan your summer vacation," said Bill Greer, founder and editor-in-chief of GORP.com. "In fact, there are some great savings to be had for those who are still looking for great adventure travel deals, are flexible with their travel dates or are traveling with their kids."

For example, current deals at www.gorptravel.com include:

	Grand Canyon Rafting: Three-days for $875 per person (save $125), including guides, helicopter ride, meals, top-quality camping gear, and motor coach transportation to Las Vegas. A tent-camping rafting and hiking trip, starting with a helicopter trip deep into the canyon. Highlights include a series of moderate rapids of the lower Granite Gorge and hiking in the Travertine Canyon. The trip ends with a jet boat traverse of Lake Mead before returning to Las Vegas. Yellowstone Meadows: Six-days starting at $1,295 per person, including meals, guided fishing, Basecamp accommodations and a full-range of camp services. Depart on August 17 or 20 and save $195 per person. If the best fly-fishing is always found the farthest from civilization, this excursion by horseback to the remote southeast corner of Yellowstone National Park is the perfect choice. Following a full day's ride in the saddle, crossing the Continental Divide at Two Ocean Pass, arrive to find a deluxe fish camp and enjoy virtually limitless fly-fishing on the Yellowstone and Thorofare Rivers. Costa Rica Explorer: Ten-days starting at $1,598 per person, including most meals, nine nights' lodging, park fees, permits, tours and transfers. Kids ages 6-12 save $500 each. A walking and hiking nature odyssey through the country's national parks and cloud forests. Highlights include the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve and Butterfly Gardens, the still-active Arenal Volcano and the remote Tortuguero National Park for jungle exploring by electric-powered skiff. Alaska Denali-Kenai Multi-sport:Seven-days starting at $2,495, including meals, accommodation, guides, bicycle riding instruction, park fees and more. Save $125 by traveling on June 29 or July 8 (singles-only). An exceptional taste of Alaska featuring hiking and walking, rafting, sea kayaking and mountain biking. Highlights include alpine meadows, massive glaciers of the Chugach and Talkeetna Mountains, rafting on the glacier-fed Matanuska River and sea kayaking on Prince William Sound fjord. Optional helicopter tour of Mt. McKinley or Denali.

Other exceptional offers from GORP's"Hot Deals" include a multi-sport vacation in the Oregon's Cascades Mountains (walking, hiking, rafting, canoeing, mountain biking); bicycling the beautiful Natches Trace through the ante bellum South; a Montana Family Adventure featuring hiking, horseback riding, rafting, fishing and mountain biking; bicycle tours of Ireland; hiking and sea kayaking in the Andes and the Amazon River; snorkeling and diving for ten days in Hawaii, and many others.

GORP (a.k.a. Great Outdoor Recreation Pages) is the largest and most trafficked Web site dedicated to outdoor recreation and adventure travel. With more than 100,000 pages of content, GORP offers a complete package of authoritative, award-winning content, a large, active community of outdoor enthusiasts and a full-range of e-commerce offerings drawing nearly 13 million page views per month. Started in 1995, GORP offers a full-service adventure travel booking feature, accessible via the Web or telephone, with more than 35,000 departures in addition to a gear store with 180 brands of clothing, footwear and equipment. GORP has been cited by Yahoo!, US News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and many others, as the leader in this category and a "Best of the Web" site. To reach GORP's world of outdoor recreation, including an incomparable selection of vacation packages, log on to www.gorp.com.

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