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A little more than a year ago, I retired the Trek 5200 road bike I’d been pedaling back and forth to the Austin American-Statesman for 15 years and bought a gravel bike. Since then, I’ve been riding my new Specialized Diverge (nickname Banana Cream Pie) gravel bike...

I first heard about Injinji toe socks about 15 years ago, when I hiked 27 miles on the Good Water Trail around Lake Georgetown with a group of retirees from the Sun City Hiking Club. By the end of the all-day hike, I was hobbling, thanks to two blisters the size of...

Muleshoe Bend Recreation Area just moved up a notch on my list of favorite places to ride a mountain bike in Central Texas. I spent Saturday morning zipping along the Great Escape Trail, which served up tight turns, a few ledgy drops, some fast zoomy stretches and...

West Hansen won’t lead a kayaking expedition through the Northwest Passage this summer as planned, but he will paddle across Alabama instead. Hansen, who paddled the entire Amazon River in 2012 and the entire Volga River in Russia two years later, will compete this...