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SylvanSport Cache Me If You Can Trailer Contest

What's better than a free trailer? A free modular GO trailer packed to the brim with great outdoor sports gear like a Jackson kayak, Burton snowboard, Niner bike, Kelty camping gear and even Ground mountain boards--$14,000 worth of rad outdoor sports gear to be exact. SylvanSport is sponsoring a new contest called "Cache Me If You Can". Contestants will need to go onto the website--findtheGO.com--register and watch a video clue each week. Tucked inside the videos will be sets...
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Anti-Energy Drinks: Just Another Way to Throw Away Money

I'll admit that I partake in an energy drink here or there. Even though it's a nasty-tasting, overpriced can of caffeine, once in a while the boost is worth it--especially when a cup of coffee would eat away at my stomach lining and make me have to drop trou in the middle of the forest. A new emerging trend is the "anti-energy" drink, a small bottle of elixir that calms you down and gets you ready for...
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1970 Airstream Restoration--From Start to Finish

Camperboy and I spotted a video series on You Tube last weekend, courtesy of the DIY Network's Classic Rides, and fell in love. Not with the show's presenter but with his project. It's been a dream of ours to buy a silver bullet like this (1970, 27 ft, Land Yacht) and renovate it, so when we started watching the first episode we were glued to the Mac for the following 9. That's right, in ten...
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Long Distance Canoeing

I am taking a solo canoe trip this summer, from Pine Island, Florida (around Fort Myers) to Key West via the Everglades. Any thoughts? Advice? I know the mosquitoes will be bad, hurricanes, what not, but that's nothing alien to me. Anybody done the Wilderness Waterway before or lived out of a canoe?
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U.S. to Boost GPS Coverage

U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan have been experiencing problems with GPS coverage in canyons and mountain ranges, an issue that has motivated the mlitary's Strategic Command to enhance the capability of the Global Positioning System (GPS) by adding three satellites. GPS currently relies upon a series of 24 different satellites along six separate orbital paths. Information from at least four separate satellites is used to provide a 3D position here on Earth. The addition of three satellites will...
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North Face: Finally, a Good Film About Climbing

For all of us climbers who were scarred by Sylvester Stallone's 1993 film Cliffhanger, it looks like we've got a remedy. North Face, a film directed by Philipp Stolzl about two men's attempt to climb the Eiger's North Face in 1936, is being hailed by critics as gripping, suspenseful, and excruciating (in a good way). Film criticism patriarch Roger Ebert paid North Face high praise, saying that "I was on the side of that mountain...
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Seven creatures that have become extinct in your lifetime.

We all know about the demise of the dinosaurs, but since that happened millions of years ago, the import of occasion seems a bit removed to our daily lives. Fast forward to 1989 when we said goodbye to the Golden Toad. (Photo: Charles H. Smith / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) In 1996 we said farewell to the Zanzibar Leopard. (Photo: Helle V. Goldman and Jon Winther-Hansen) In 2000 it was the Pyrenean Ibex.   ...
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World's Scariest Ski Runs

  I've always wanted to put together a list of the world's most difficult ski runs. Unfortunately, I haven't ridden enough of these double-black diamond + trails in the United States, let alone the world, to create the list that I envision. So, I'm stuck with scouring the Internet for other lists. GearJunkie Stephen Regenold had a pretty good list a couple of years ago in Forbes Traveler that included Corbet's Couloir (Jackson Hole), Two...
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Zeal Optics and Recon Instruments: A Match Made in Heaven

Remember my post about Recon Instrument's snowboarding goggle with the in-lens head's up display (HUD)? It projects info such as your speed, elevation, the temperature directly onto your lens, giving you real-time info on your snow situation. A very cool idea, but too often cool ideas get bogged down by being paired with lousy products. My big fear for this innovation was that it would get paired with a sub-par goggle and count on its...
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Home Bouldering: The Video

It's not the destination; it's the journey. Via.
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