Outdoor activities

Hill Walking

Life on the wrong side of the tracks
Republican & Herald - Mar 21, 2010
... which made me aware that not everyone lived in the comfort and safety that reigned on Greenwood Hill. Walking down Market Street with my friends, ...

Trekking

Last Footfall in Nepal

New York TimesPittsburgh Post Gazette - Mar 20, 2010
On trekking blogs and message boards, purists are already mourning Annapurna's demise. So when I walked the Annapurna Circuit this past October, ...

Canoeing

What they wear
Detroit Free Press - Mar 21, 2010
• Advice: He wears Tevas on hikes, fording rivers, in his tent, canoeing, even on the plane: "If for some reason I'm stuck in Seat B and can't take them off ...

Kayaking

Mountaineers offer courses on kayaking basics
TheNewsTribune.com - Mar 21, 2010
For more information or to register, go to www.tacoma mountaineers.org, then select “Activities–Sea Kayaking” or se-mail Peggy Gablehouse at ...

Mountaineering

US Ski Mountaineering National Championships Tomorrow at Jackson Hole
First Tracks - Mar 18, 2010
Teton Village, WY - Saturday's US Ski Mountaineering Championship presented by Marmot, is an endurance race without equal. ...

Ice Climbing

Climbers put their pastime on ice in Colorado
NewsOK.com - Mar 21, 2010
After a day and a half of training and practicing ice-climbing techniques, the climbing guide and I rappelled 140 feet down into the Box Canyon of the ...

Rock Climbing

Mom and daughter tackle Mt. Washington in winter
Winnisquam Echo - Mar 18, 2010
The six months, she says, involved a lot of rock climbing. By the time she came home to Moultonborough, she says, "I was toast. ...

Indoor Climbing

Driven up the wall
Wicked Local (blog) - Mar 20, 2010
He now works three nights a week at the Gleason Family YMCA in Wareham, monitoring the climbers who flock to the gym's expansive indoor climbing wall. ...

Showshoeing

Hike of the Week Feb. 25 -- Get taste for showshoeing on the Sourdough Trail
Broomfield Enterprise - Feb 25, 2010
PEACE AND QUIET: As you make your way north along a gentle incline, you ll cross Fourmile Creek on a wide, ...

Caving

Acorn On The Verge Of Bankruptcy
Huffington Post (blog) - Mar 20, 2010
... the comment you replied to I blame the dems for this for caving so quickly on an organization that has been a friend to working people for 40 years. ...

Paragliding

Woman injured in paragliding accident in Mokuleia
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Mar 20, 2010
By Star-Bulletin staff A 25-year-old woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries today when she encountered gusty and shifting winds while paragliding in ...

Hang Gliding

The city that loves the car was slow to pay for parking

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times - Mar 20, 2010
... services (Emmanuel Lutheran, North Hollywood, 1949), hang-gliding (Dockweiler State Beach, about 1960) and the Cobb salad (the Brown Derby, 1937). ...

Rafting

Raft bill sinks in legislature
Grand Junction Sentinel - Mar 21, 2010
Not only would river rafting outfitters have earned the right to float through private land, but everyone else would have, too. ...

Scuba Diving

A dip on the wild side of Cozumel

Austin American-StatesmanAustin American-Statesman - Mar 21, 2010
Thanks in part to ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau's glowing descriptions of Cozumel's coral reefs in 1961, the island became a famous scuba diving ...

Kite Flying

200 days to go for CWG 2010

SINDH TODAYSify - Mar 21, 2010
Kites of various colours flew in the sky Sunday as large number of people converged at the India Gate lawns to participate in a kite flying event organised ...

Wind Surfing

5 Questions: Skier Jacobson competes in Junior Olympics
Helena Independent Record - Mar 19, 2010
Among Jacobson's hobbies are mountain biking, and boating, water skiing, tubing, cliff jumping and wind surfing, at Canyon Ferry Lake and the Columbia River ...

Kite Surfing

Kite Surfer Seeks Higher Elevation
Wall Street Journal - Feb 24, 2010
Jeff Kafka has introduced hundreds of adventure-seeking Silicon Valley executives to kite-surfing, where riders use the wind to ...

Snowboarding

White Pulls Out, but His Influence Is on Full Display

Boston GlobeNew York Times - Mar 21, 2010
STRATTON, Vt. — Shaun White was a no-show in the halfpipe at the United States Open Snowboarding Championships. ...

Skateboarding

Skateboarding Will Be Next for Snowboarding Champion

Boston GlobeNew York Times - Mar 20, 2010
Shaun White, a two-time halfpipe gold medalist, uses skateboarding to cross-train. When he returned home, the 23-year-old White found himself in new ...

Street Luge

Olympian transformations

Boston GlobeBoston Globe - Feb 26, 2010
This summer, the Slider Search made a stop in a Northbridge neighborhood with a gently sloping road ideal for street luge. Half a dozen kids showed up for ...

Parachuting

Special Forces' Parachuting Recruit Is a Dog

ABC NewsABC News - Mar 16, 2010
By LEXIE O'CONNOR Dogs, used for companions, search and rescue efforts and to aid the handicapped, have added parachuting to their list of skills. ...

Abseiling

Dropping in for abseiling challenge
Reading Post - Mar 19, 2010
The children of a Shinfield man killed in a hit-and-run will be raising money in their dad's memory next weekend. Liz Beckford and her brother John Hudson ...

Base Jumping

Twin Falls BASE jumper Miles Daisher flies onto big screen
Trading Markets (press release) - Mar 19, 2010
The Red Bull Air Force team is the best of the best in skydiving and BASE jumping. Group members hold multiple world records and continue to defy the odds ...

Bungee Jumping

Kodak joins the actioncam game with the Playsport
Gizmag - Mar 19, 2010
Kodak has just announced that it's bungee-jumping into the “actioncam” market, with this month's introduction of its new compact, ...

Inline Skating

Town to host skatepark clinics starting April 20
Greenwich Post - Mar 18, 2010
The Greenwich Parks and Recreation Department still has space available for its skateboarding and inline skating clinics this Spring. ...

Sailplanes

Greenbang-sponsored sailplanes glide through the Andes

Greenbang (blog)Greenbang (blog) - Feb 25, 2010
By Greenbang on Thursday, 25th February 2010 Greenbang recently helped sponsor some of the sailplanes participating in the World Sailplane Grand Prix Final, ...

Sky Diving

Quote of the Day: Thompson, Saffo, Google and sky diving
StarNewsOnline.com (blog) - Mar 15, 2010
... as “Google Beach” or New Hanover County as “New Google County,” Wilmington Mayor Bill Saffo has said he would go sky-diving to support the program. ...

Snowmobiling

Victim of snowmobile crash near Aspen ID'd
Denver Post - Mar 20, 2010
Shane William Bennett, 31, of Portland, Ore., was snowmobiling Thursday with friends in the Lenado area when he hit a tree, according to the Pitkin County ...

Whitewater Rafting

Boise Watershed Environmental Education Center hosts spring runoff party Saturday
IdahoStatesman.com - Mar 18, 2010
This free, family event includes hands-on kayaking and whitewater rafting activities, along with arts and crafts activities for kids of all ages. ...

Mountain Biking

Mountain Biking: Downhill mountain biker on a roll

Otago Daily TimesOtago Daily Times - Mar 18, 2010
Adelaide schoolboy Troy Brosnan is the rising star of Australian mountain biking and has been signed by a United ...

Adventure Racing

For Lakeridge High graduate Jon Lyons, adventure racing's the thing

Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.comHillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com - Mar 20, 2010
Adventure racing requires teams of two or four pulling together to complete a series of grueling contests, which can last from two days to two weeks. ...

Motorcycles

4 on 2 motorcycles killed in Fla. collision
The Associated Press - Mar 14, 2010
Four people on two motorcycles have been killed in western Florida after a pickup truck struck both bikes. All four motorcyclists were ejected and one ...

Tractor Pull

Engineering mavericks gather for robotic competition
CTV.ca - Mar 20, 2010
Some contestants used robot kits. The students competed in challenges with names like the "Super Scramble" and the "Tractor Pull."

Paintball

Two men are arrested in North Bergen for playing paintball in the park

The Jersey Journal - NJ.comThe Jersey Journal - NJ.com - Mar 19, 2010
When police arrived, they found a blue Dodge Caravan in front of the entrance to the park, door wide open, four paintball guns on the floor with Diaz and ...

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