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Lace up your hiking boots, folks, and come join me for a walk. The Oboz Trail Experience is under way in Austin, and I’m leading a qualifying hike on Oct. 26. This year marks the fourth year of the event in Austin, which rewards participants for completing a series of...

I returned from the Fall Cowgirl Roundup at The Resort at Paws Up in Montana with cow poop on my boots and a little swagger in my stride. That’s what comes from four days spent horseback riding, fly fishing, whip cracking and more. The event is held each spring and...

​Remember that episode of “The Brady Bunch,” when our favorite blended family stumbled into a perfectly preserved ghost town and met a crotchety prospector wearing a crumpled felt hat? I felt kind of like that this week, when I detoured to the skeletal remains of the...

I first camped at Inks Lake State Park in the 1970s, when my dad pitched a giant blue canvas tent and set up bunkbed cots inside for me and my sisters. That tent disintegrated long ago, but my fondness for the park, located an hour and 15 minutes northwest of Austin,...