Xtreme Tourist

- Season 1

(2010)

Host Ernie Harker is off to Mexico's Riviera; Garrafon Reef Park; Senor Frog's; Coco Bongo; scuba-diving off Cozumel; para-sailing; and a pirate cruise on an 18th-century Spanish galleon.

Ernie finds Utah's best mountain biking in the red sandstone landscape; gunfights at the Bar-M Chuckwagon; rappelling from Corona Arch; and four-wheel Jeeping Hell's Revenge.

America's Pacific Northwest; Snoqualmie Falls; rock climbing the famous REI Pinnacle; mountain biking the I-5 Colonnade Trail; a cruise on Lake Union; then kayaking Portage Bay.

Through Central America's dense jungles on a waterfall cave hike; Shark Ray Alley scuba-diving; fly-fishing; stormy kite-boarding; and an ATV ride through the jungle.

California cool and surfing school; mountain biking on the best-made bike in the world; aerial acrobatics in a World War II fighter plane; vintage Old Town; an overnight stay on the USS Midway aircraft carrier; and a romp in the water with Beluga whales at Sea World.

Surfing at Venice Beach before take-off; soccer at Maracana Stadium; hiking up Corcovado to the famous Christ the Redeemer statue; rappelling on Sugarloaf Mountain; Brazilian jujitsu lessons from a master; hang-gliding off Pedra Bonita; then Samba dancing 'til dawn.

Adventures in an Hawaiian paradise; spear-fishing; luau on the beach; surfing lessons from pro Tommy Castleton; para-sailing; jungle hiking; a helicopter flight through the Maui mountains and fire-dancing.

Scuba-diving among the Virgin Islands' undersea cliffs; the raucous annual "Jump Up" Festival; and competing for the first-time in a triathlon at the world's most difficult Iron-man event with world-class athlete James Lawrence.

Ernie goes powered hang-gliding; "Snuba" diving and paddle-boarding in Emerald Bay; tries his game at the Apple Mountain Golf Club where llamas are caddies; takes a Heavenly Ski Resort gondola ride up nearly 2 1/2 miles; get a "Rum Runner" at Camp Richardson; then he checks on the ghosts of children at the haunted Sequoia Mansion in Placerville.

Ernie tries skiing without snow on roller skis; learns how to survive in the wilderness like a Mountain Man; joins the paddle-boarders maneuvering the rapids in the Snake River; gets a lesson in falconry at a rehab center for injured birds; joins daredevil mountain biker Jefferson Franklin in an insane downhill bike course; then kicks back at dinner served from a local elk preserve.

Unseen footage of Ernie's jungle diving and swimming in an underwater cave; the ancient Mayan sights of Coba and Chichen Itza; incredible Xcaret Eco Park; kayaking, rappelling and zip-lining; then scuba-diving at Cozumel.

Ernie's favorite and most awesome experiences on trails: Snoqualmie Falls; the I-5 Colonnade; Hawaiian jungle swimming; Utah's Slickrock Trail and Corona Arch; Rio's Sugarloaf Mountain; and the deep, dark mountain caves in Belize.

Ernie has combined blue sky and white surf adventures . . . skim-boarding and hang-gliding in Rio; surfing, paragliding and spear-fishing in Maui; kite-boarding and scuba-diving in Belize; California surfing school and aerial stunts in a World War II Mustang fighter plane; then scuba and para-sailing in Cancun.