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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...

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...

Flo leans like graceful dancer, a leafy cascade of branches bent low over the edge of Barton Springs Pool. The old Texas pecan tree has been dipping down the hillside since at least 1928, providing shade to bathers and gnarled beauty to the grounds of Austin’s...

​You’d probably sooner find a rock star at the Away Spa than me, but when the downtown spot, tucked inside at the W Austin hotel, asked if I wanted to drop by for a treatment, I packed my swim suit and headed downtown. The hotel is located next to the Austin City...