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It’s snowing in Colorado and you should buy lift tickets now
Snowflakes are flying in Colorado, y’all. I sat down to coffee with a group of representatives from three Colorado ski resorts this week, who reminded me that now’s the time to buy lift tickets. “The earlier you can sort out plans, the cheaper it’s going to be,”...

Free admission at Texas State Parks this Sunday
You can leave the big bucks behind when you head to a state park this Sunday. To celebrate Texas State Parks Day, officials are dropping the day-use admission fee. That means you can hike at Pedernales Falls State Park, where recent rains have bumped up flows down the...

Nearly six months post ACL surgery, I can’t wait to ski again
Despite a job that has, over the years, involved everything from water ski jumping to backpacking and mountain biking, I’d never really injured myself – at least not badly - until I detached my ACL last spring. Then, on the Ides of March, just two weeks after skiing...

Eight-person team rowing the Northwest Passage calls it quits
An eight-person team trying to row through the Northwest Passage in a single season has called it quits in Cambridge Bay, roughly the midway point of the 2,000-mile expedition. The team, led by Leven Brown, started rowing at Pond Inlet, on the eastern edge of the...