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  • Battle sail!

    Our two tall ships were passing within a few dozen yards of each other in broad daylight on the soon to be war torn waters of San Diego Bay. The Californian, an 1850s vintage revenue cutter, flew seven sails and … <a href="http://blog.tools.news.yahoo.com/weekend/2011/04/14/battle-sail/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>

  • Snowball Warriors

    I huddled behind a styrofoam barrier on a sub-freezing wind chilled park in Anchorage, Alaska, clutching snowballs harder than baseballs and bracing myself. I was in the throes of an exhibition match culminating the first United States team snowball fighting … <a href="http://blog.tools.news.yahoo.com/weekend/2011/03/24/snowball-warriors/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>

  • I kissed a bear…and I liked it.

    Katy Perry's got nothing on me. The prurient pop music princess achieved worldwide fame and fortune with her hit song "I Kissed a Girl (And I Liked It)."  Well, guess what, Katy Poo: I kissed a 600 pound grizzly bear … <a href="http://blog.tools.news.yahoo.com/weekend/2011/02/24/i-kissed-a-bear-and-i-liked-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>

  • So, I’m the Chef?

    In cooking, as in most of life, timing is everything. As I bent over the sizzling hot commercial stove at Camaje Bistro and Lounge in the heart of New York City's restaurant rich Greenwich Village, I realized that my timing … <a href="http://blog.tools.news.yahoo.com/weekend/2011/02/03/so-im-the-chef/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>

  • Down the hill skeleton style — headfirst at highway speed!

    I slip-slide into an open chute on the bobsled track at Olympic Park in Park City, Utah, looking and feeling like a laughably lame impersonator of some comic-book superhero. I'm sheathed in a red and blue spandex body suit with … <a href="http://blog.tools.news.yahoo.com/weekend/2011/01/13/down-the-hill-skeleton-style-headfirst-at-highway-speed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>

  • Mountain biking indoors? Try Cleveland, Ohio

    I mounted a seven-foot-high wooden platform inside Ray's Indoor Mountain Bike Park in Cleveland, Ohio, trying desperately to channel the daredevil spirit of Evel Knievel so that I wouldn't embarrass myself in front of my jumping instructor, a 16-year-old girl … <a href="http://blog.tools.news.yahoo.com/weekend/2010/12/23/mountain-biking-indoors-try-cleveland-ohio/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>

  • The racing housewife

    The first thing I see from the shotgun seat of a race car in the Enduro 100 is that I can see nothing at all. Nothing except for the dust, that is. I'm trapped in a huge brown cloud that's … <a href="http://blog.tools.news.yahoo.com/weekend/2010/12/02/the-racing-housewife/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>

  • The Adventures of Harry Hurt

    I'm a born adventurer. I'll try anything — at least once. I was raised in Houston, Texas, where adventure was something you did every day after school and on the weekends. Needless to say, I grew up with a big … <a href="http://blog.tools.news.yahoo.com/weekend/2010/11/03/the-adventures-of-harry-hurt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>