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Every summer, weary from the heat, droves of Texans pack up their hiking boots and a sweatshirt or two and head to the mountains of Colorado. Most travelers think of the usual hotspots to get their fix of chilly mornings, aspen-shaded trails, and alpine lakes. But I...

  Endurance paddler West Hansen has officially postponed the Arctic Cowboys kayak expedition through the Northwest Passage this summer.   Hansen, who paddled the entire Amazon River in 2012 and the entire Volga River in Russia two years later, had planned to lead...

I love camping under the stars, but sometimes a soft bed, air conditioning and - a hot tub? - sound really appealing. I zipped out to North Shore at Lake Bastrop Park yesterday to check out some of the new glamping options at the 182-acre, pine-studded property. The...

  Maybe it’s weird, but I pick up trash. Last Sunday, during my dawn ski run, I noticed an unusually large amount of trash bobbing on the surface of Lake Austin. Maybe it was the previous week’s holiday, or maybe the garbage had been washed into the lake by recent...