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Great Places to KiteSurf
As with any sport, sometimes you must travel to different locations to experience a different cultures take on the hottest sport around.
Jakob Jelling
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The History of the Stanley Cup
The coveted cup. The Stanley Cup is the prize that NHL hockey teams strive to receive at the end of a hockey season.
Catherine Kenyeres
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Hypothermia
Hypothermia is considered the number one killer in the outdoors. It can occur in both warm (summer) and cold (winter) climates and is usually the combination of two factors, cold and wet. If you are in a warm tropical place and you add rain and wind, hypothermia can rear its ugly head.
Greg Rouse
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There's Nothing Quite So Glorious as a Good Fight With Your Fists!
I don’t think I’ve ever landed a three-punch combination quite so squarely on anybody as I did on that boy on that fateful Sunday afternoon. I threw a right hook, a left hook, and a right uppercut, and the great beast just dropped like a sack of potatoes at my feet - ‘boom’.
David B. Smith
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Costs Associated With KiteSurfing
The kites are made up of several parts:
The Kite (Leading Edge)
2 Bridle Lines
2 Flying Lines
1 Control Bar
Jakob Jelling
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A Wave From The Tour
The chance to take in a stage of this year's Tour de France was not to be missed.
Craig McGinty
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5 Tips for Successful Bird Watching
Can you name the number one spectator sport in North America? It’s not baseball, figure skating or racing. It’s bird watching. That’s right, more people are watching birds than football and hockey combined. With so many people hoping to see a bird they’ve never seen before, it’s not surprising to see a clamoring for the latest tips and tools to get the job done. Here are my top five tips for getting the most out of your birding experience.
Chuck Fitzgerald
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Night Vision Devices -- The Ultimate in BackCountry Toys
Many nights in the backcountry are far from dark. A bright moon and a sky full of stars can throw off enough light to allow for reading a book, but add cloud cover, mountains or trees and it gets dark awfully fast. When you need to see in the dark, you have two choices - you either turn on a light, or use one of the many available night vision devices (NVD). The NVD could be the ultimate backcountry toy.
Chuck Fitzgerald
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Why Range Finders are Perfect for the BackCountry
Outdoor enthusiasts love to guess about all sorts of things. We guess how many stars are in the Milky Way, we guess how fast a deer runs or we might even guess about how long it will be until that big, dark cloud dumps rain us. But there are times when guessing in the backcountry just doesn’t get the job done. Specialty gear is available to help us determine how far we’ve hiked - and in what direction - and other tools are available to help take the guesswork out of purifying...
Chuck Fitzgerald
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Why Cheap Knifes Will End Up Costing You More Then Money!
The following article describes why buying cheap knife not only does not save money, but also is potentially dangerous. The article also offers tips on what to look for when shopping for a good quality tactical folding knife.
Robert Corsair
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