Looking for Love on Vacation? Try Adventure Dating

Forget finding love through friends, family and colleagues - the best way to hunt down Mr. or Miss Right might be getting out of town.

"I've noticed in the past five years this has gone way up, because the way people meet each other has changed," said Hilary Black, editor in chief of the relationship magazine Tango. "People used to meet in bars, and now people work all the time," she continued. "This is a way they can meet in context, doing something they love, and it's a lot less of an awkward set-up. And they can push themselves physically, which is a big plus now." Anyone who ever wanted to cross-country ski across Colorado's mountains by day and sleep in tents by night can sign up for an adventure with the Wichita, Kan.-based company Backwoods. Backwoods also offers 14,000-foot-high hikes to Mexican volcanoes, Costa Rican whitewater rafting and ascents to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Mt. Everest base camp, complete with porters and guides.