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| Hiker begins 4700 mile journey around Alaska |
| Filed under: Hiking, Paddling, Skiing, North America, United StatesLong distance hiking legend Andrew Skurka is off on another adventure, this time taking on a trek through the Alaskan wilderness that will take seven months to complete, and will cove (more) |
| Charmaine Locke: Locked on the feminine spirit |
| MISSOURI HEIGHTS When it comes to the materials she uses and the forms she creates, artist Charmaine Locke has wandered all over the spectrum A tour through her spacious studio warehouse in Missouri Heights turns up wood and wax, tape and lea (more) |
| Improve your camping experience with these videos |
| Has it been a while since your last camping trip? Have you forgotten how exactly to hang your pack so the big, bad grizzlies don't get to it? This set of anything but dry videos will help ease your mind and reassure your camping skills, whether you a (more) |
| Santa Monica: LA's best side |
| SANTA MONICA, Calif It's a joy to be a tourist in your own town, and there's no better place to do that than a beach city with so much to do and see in an eight mile radius Recently, I had the opportunity to return to my old stomping grounds (more) |
| Study: Humans are too noisy for nature |
| Loss of habitat, chemical pollution and physical changes to habitat get the lion's share of attention when it comes to human impacts on wildlife, including extinction But a growing body of evidence suggests that human generated noise is also i (more) |
| Good goggles, superior customer service |
| I've owned my Smith Knowledge goggles for a couple of seasons now, and they've been great for my particular needs I wear eyeglasses most of the time, and the Knowledge is made for four eyed folks like me It has little channels in the foam arou (more) |
| Around Aspen: New at the Music Festival |
| Molly McArdle is the new development director and the newest member of the senior management team of the Aspen Music Festival and School On Feb 23, Merrill Ford gave a reception at her home at the Aspen Meadows to introduce Molly to various t (more) |
| As Health Vote Awaits, Future of a Presidency Waits, Too |
| Win or lose on health care, President Obama will face a vastly different political landscape after the fate of his plan is decided (more) |
| I wanna save money without being a liar... |
| How long does it take for traces of being a cigarette smoker to leave my body? I quit smoking more than two years ago Since then, I have intermittently smoked maybe two cartons of cigarettes while drinking and socializing The last cigarette I had (more) |
| 25-50-100 years ago ... |
| March 1910'Our state boiler inspector charmed,' read the headline in the March 7 Aspen Democrat Times The newspaper reported:On Saturday evening State Boiler Inspector George V Cosseboom was surprised at his home, 918 East Cooper Avenue, by t (more) |
| Fairmont asks for a dollar, offers the ocean |
| Filed under: Food and Drink, North America, United States, Hotels and AccommodationsNext month, look for something new coming from kitchens across the Fairmont chain Chefs at these upscale properties will be showing off their skills not only with se (more) |
| Kelly J. Hayes: WineInk |
| Those who read this column know that I believe you can figure out the whole world by studying wine History, geology, climatology, sociology in fact, nearly all the 'ologys' have their tentacles in the wide world of wine Ah, but those learne (more) |
| Forgetting to earn miles when pre-ordering the iPad |
| Filed under: Gear, North America, United States, Budget Travel, Internet ToolsI was amused to read that on Day 1, about 120,000 iPads were sold on 'a product that 99 9% of purchasers haven't touched or for that matter, even seen in person,' CNN repor (more) |
| Sixties Surfers |
| Skiing and surfing were the 'in' sports of the 1960s Many enthusiasts dabbled in both sports, seasonally migrating like birds between beaches and ski resorts Adolescents, stuck in midwestern towns, vicariously participated while listening to (more) |
| Daily gear deals - $23 Kids luggage set, $20 headphones and more |
| Filed under: Gadling's Daily Deal
Here are the hottest gear deals for today, Sunday March 14th 2010 Remember, these deals are often valid for just one day, so act fast before they are gone
Today's first deal is for an American Tourister lugg (more) |
| Bermuda resort gives the lazy an extra month to book |
| Filed under: North America, Hotels and Accommodations
Sometimes, procrastinating doesn't come with any consequences It doesn't happen often We're taught from a young age that early birds get to kill and chomp on the best worms, not to put off to to (more) |
| Hal Walter: Too many homes on the New Western range |
| A quick look at the 81252 zip code on realtor com brings up 262 houses for sale where I live That's one house for every 15 residents in south central Colorado's Custer County, three hours from Denver Just a few years ago, Custer County was ta (more) |
| Lloyds 'mulls demerger of commercial property arm' |
| LLOYDS Banking Group is thought to be considering a possible demerger of a sizeable slug of its depressed commercial property arm into a tax efficient investment trust (more) |
| Incredibly Impressive Insurance Professional Is Insulated Within The Presti |
| Nathan McKeon has been accepted into the ranks of prestigious professionals with Stanford Who's Who as a result of his sensational work in the Insurance Industry (more) |
| Colorado wildlife officer kills dog harassing elk |
| DURANGO, Colo A Colorado wildlife officer has shot and killed an unleashed dog that was harassing an elk near Durango The officer was called by a resident to the Animas River north of Durango on Thursday The barking dog had caused the elk to e (more) |
| White Collar Travel Extra: Charles Hotel, Skype and the Business Traveler |
| Filed under: Business, North America, United States, Hotels and AccommodationsThe Charles Hotel's recent small gesture may actually be a bold move The hotel, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has decided to add Skype and video cameras to the free c (more) |
| Fried Logic Board, Divorce Possible |
| My wife's Macbook has a dead logic board Can I get data off it? Like an idiot, I spilled coffee near my wife's Macbook, and the mere whiff of it seems to have been enough to fry the logic board (Upon hitting the power button, the hard disk spins fo (more) |
| A roller coaster at Breckenridge? |
| BRECKENRIDGE, Colo Breckenridge Ski Resort hopes to offer a new way to get down the hill The resort has proposed to build an 'alpine coaster,' a 2,500 foot long ride on rails that could be used both summer and winter, possibly even at night (more) |
| Aspen's fifth mountain: Free nordic network marks 25 years |
| ASPEN Thousands of skiers ply groomed trails every winter in Aspen Snowmass They don't ride a lift, they don't pay a fee and no one pays any particular attention to their coming and going Fans of Aspen's so called 'fifth mountain' may not re (more) |
| Colorado caucuses give outside pols chance to shine |
| DENVER It was the Democrats' biggest fundraiser of the year, and all their bigwigs were seated up by the stage Congress members Party leaders And their newest U S senator, Michael Bennet Way in back, stuck at table No 96 in a chair that (more) |
| Aspen's fifth mountain: Free nordic network marks 25 years |
| ASPEN Thousands of skiers ply groomed trails every winter in Aspen Snowmass They don't ride a lift, they don't pay a fee and no one pays any particular attention to their coming and going Fans of Aspen's so called 'fifth mountain' may not re (more) |
| Speedy Access to Auto Insurance Information |
| Lawmakers want West Virginia to crack down on uninsured motorists by providing law enforcement with real time policy information during traffic stops and crash scenes (more) |
| Irish police release Leadville woman held in alleged plot |
| Irish police release US woman held in alleged plotDENVER An American woman and three others arrested in Ireland over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks have been freed without charge, Irish police said Saturday Seven people (more) |
| Photo of the Day (3.14.2010) |
| Filed under: Asia, Cambodia, Photo of the Day
I've seen plenty of bland photos of Cambodia's famous Angkor Wat temple complex Enough to know today's choice, by Flickr user mick62, is anything but The close up details of the exotic dancer, the wonde (more) |
| Current events |
| Written wordTed Conover has proved himself a stalwart journalist, looking closely inside big topics of the day (American prisons in the much honored 'Newjack,' and immigration in 'Coyotes') and not so grand subjects (Aspen, in 'Whiteout') With hi (more) |
| Airline buys competitor's cheap seats so you can't |
| Filed under: Business, Airlines, Budget Travel, News You have to hand it to Climber Sterling, a Danish low cost carrier When they found out that their competitor, Norwegian Air Shuttle was launching a massive fare sale, instead of letting consumers (more) |
| John Colson: Hit and Run |
| 'It's not nice to fool Mother Nature,' the advertisement warned us from our television sets back in the 1960s and we still haven't learned Of course that commercial was the creation of ad men bent upon the manipulative task of convincing us t (more) |
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