Team INFINIT Spotlight - Destination 3 Degrees...

Because It’s Fun…

Welcome to our world. Here, challenges do not go uncontested and dreams are never not mostly reality. At least in our heads…

Just a few days ago we sent our channel crossing idea out into the world. We thought it was a little different from the start, but we believed in it. We also couldn’t help but be a little scared that maybe we were the ones who were a little different.

Crossing each of the Hawaiian channels on standup paddleboards is a big deal; we recognized that as each of us stared at Morgan with “Are you serious?” stretching from a question on the inside to smile on the outside. Laird and Dave have done it. Much faster and stronger than we will. But they’re Laird and Dave, and that’s the beauty of challenges: they’re personal.



Our challenge is Morgan’s fault: the product of a creative, wanderlusty brain infatuated with discovery, at home inside an athlete. We love her.

Morgan is the first woman to complete the Oahu to Molokai race, solo, on a standup paddleboard. She did it because someone told her she couldn’t. She did it because she already knew she was wanted to try all of the channels, and someone else had told her that if given the opportunity, “you should always jump.” He meant tethered to some sort of parachute contraption, but Morgan was just stoked he didn’t tell her not to go.

Morgan approached Jenny at the Molokai race the following year, this past summer. Jenny had just won the race out of a field of eight incredible female paddlers. As Morgan puts it, “She didn’t hate the idea.” The adventure basket had a shape.


Jenny is our fire. The passion, dedication and talent that keep her on top of the podiums are just who she is, and, now, who we are too. Her favorite thing is to cross items off of lists. So we give her the hard lists. Like finding captains and boats, and the course, and money. When she comes back a few hours later, questions answered, with pictures, the rest of realize that maybe we could be a little faster setting up the Twitter account. We really love her.

If you ask either of them why they would do such a thing as paddle nearly 300 miles along a course that crosses at least two of the ocean’s most dangerous channels – battling wind, swell, sun, themselves, and maybe even giant squid – they’d smile at you and say, “Because it’s fun.”

And they mean it.

So, welcome to our adventure. We are so excited that you are here! Stay a while, and bring your friends.

INFINIT Nutrition is proud and very excited to be working with Jenny and Morgan of Destination 3 Degrees on their paddle across the Hawaian Islands. Check out their wensite at http://destination3.com/

Destination 3°

Three degrees of latitude separate the islands of Hawaii. Nine legendary
and infamous open-ocean channels link them together. Drawn by ritual, necessity,
competition and challenge, watermen have long conquered and been conquered by
these channels…but never in an adventure quite like this.

In April 2010, Jenny Kalmbach and Morgan Hoesterey, two of the world’s
elite female standup paddleboarders, will make their way across each of these
channels, setting competition aside to chase the ultimate prize: ocean
adventure.

Inspired by their love of the ocean, Destination 3° is more than a standup
paddle adventure, more than an ocean challenge, and more than two women pushing
the edges of themselves and their sport, it is a way to give back.

Destination 3° puts Jenny and Morgan in a unique and powerful position to
raise awareness and funds to help benefit Algalita Marine Research Foundation in
their mission to understand and protect the oceans from the impacts of plastics
contamination.

Three degrees over an expanse of water may be a challenge, but in the end,
the real challenge is stoking the fires of adventure and awareness of the world
that makes it all possible.