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  • HOW TO: How to "live it like a pirate"

    First, a little background. When I was a teenager, I took trips through a wilderness adventure camp. One camp tradition relating to these trips was "trail notes." Before a group went on a long trip...

  • HOW TO: How to Run Your First Trail Race

     The smartass answer to "How can I run my first trail race?" is "Place one foot rapidly in front of the other. Repeat until you cross the finish line. Don't trip." But that's not actually...

  • HOW TO: How to Boulder on the Beach

    In strictly literal terms, it's pretty damn simple. Find a boulder on a beach. Climb on it. Presto, you know "How to boulder on the beach." In looser terms, though, there are a few things...

  • HOW TO: Make a Million Dollars Writing About the Outdoors

    Advertise a brochure called "How to Make a Million Dollars Writing About the Outdoors", which would contain only this sentence and the following one. Sell a million copies at $1 each or 500,000 copies at...

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