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Here in Austin, water skiing season lasts all year round for some people. I’m not normally one of those people, but I did want to log a slalom run in November, so even though the thermometer read 45 degrees at daybreak yesterday, Chris and I dropped our boat into the...

I’ve paddled the Devils River in West Texas three times in the past three years, and camped out there at least three other times. During my last canoe trip a few weeks ago, clouds of Monarch butterflies drifted along the river corridor as I paddled through rapids and...

I’m so stressed out with election anxiety that I can’t sit still. (OK, so that’s me pretty much every day.) This Halloween morning, to burn off some of the heebie jeebies, my husband and I loaded up our bikes and headed to our favorite Austin area mountain biking...

This week’s mid-week, emergency, got-to-take-a-break from the politics and bad news before my head explodes mini-backpacking trip to Pedernales Falls State Park did more than sooth my frazzled nerves. It gave me a chance to check out the primitive, walk-in sites at...