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I took my first swim lessons at Northwest District Pool in 1970, more than a decade after it opened as the first 50-meter Olympic-sized pool in Austin. In the ensuing years, my sisters and I spent long afternoons there, leaving our belongings in wire baskets behind...

Dream of scampering up and down rolling ranch roads in the Hill Country on a mountain bike? Registration is open for this fall’s Wild Ride at Shield Ranch Barton Creek, set for Sept. 26. The ranch, a 6,600-acre property west of Austin protected through land easements,...

I first got hooked on hiking as a kid, when my dad led me into the ravine at the end of our street in Northwest Hills. That led to longer hikes along Shoal Creek and the Barton Creek Greenbelt. But even I discovered plenty of new routes while researching my latest...

Pam LeBlanc sits in a Helinox Zero LT. Chris LeBlanc photo   A can of beans. A large bag of potato chips. Four sticks of butter. The newest ultra-light chair from Helinox, the Chair Zero LT, weighs barely an ounce more than each of those things, which means it might...