Crai S. Bower writes, photographs, and broadcasts about adventure travel and nature from around the world for outlets such as AARP, Condé Nast Traveler, Saturday Evening Post, Garden & Gun and more.
His passion is writing about and photographing outdoor adventures like “Connecting with Temagami” (Explore), in which he described a northern Ontario canoe expedition. Other recent pieces feature best birding destinations in the South (Garden & Gun), road trip reflections from Grateful Dead tour (Wildsam Magazine), and how heliskiing in British Columbia is accessible to non-extreme skiers (Condé Nast Traveler). Crai’s “Starry, Starry Nights in Dark Sky Preserves” (Saturday Evening Post), received a 2025 Lowell Thomas Award for “Environmental and Sustainability Feature.”
Current assignments have led to skiing in the Swiss Alps and the Italian Dolomites, a Shinto priest-led waterfall cleanse in Tohoku, Japan, and mountain biking beneath Ecuador’s Mt. Cotopaxi. Follow his adventures @travelcrais.
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