It’s not easy to add up all the ways in which Lance Armstrong has earned the title of American hero. Lance Armstrong Lance Armstrong First he was the fiery phenom, a brilliant athlete on the brink of greatness. Then he showed us the vulnerable, terrified, but always valiant young…

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Week of January 23-29, 1997 Exploring north of the Arctic Circle All-inclusive resort vacations with kids Guided trekking to K2 Base Camp Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on foot Mountaineering courses for teenagers Exploring north of the Arctic Circle Question: What’s the best adventure…

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“Tinku is perfect, like the lightning. When it kills you, it kills you; when you have to die, you die. He who falls, let the earth be the one to complain.”

In the piece on Sno-Seal you said, "I'm confident it's the only product to appear in both the 1943 and the 2003 REI catalogs." I wonder if that's true. I think it would be really cool to see a listing of the items that were in the first REI catalog that are still in the current one, and the price differences. Don Denver, Colorado

Country's last snow was 30 years before his birth

Courtesy of CBS Sunday Morning CBS Sunday Morning profiled Kelly Slater earlier today and in between the requisite stills of a young Slater surfing and video of him tearing up ASP events they nabbed a preview of his new wave machine. In a plain-looking Los Angeles warehouse, engineers at…