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	<title>Out Your Backdoor - Featured Articles</title>
	<description>Do-It-Yourself Culture</description>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/</link>
	<copyright>Copyright 1991-2010 Jeff Potter</copyright>
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	<pubDate>Tue Feb 9 2010 5:17:48 MST</pubDate>

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	<title>Safety on Ice!</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1438</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - The rule of thumb is do not walk on ice if it's 3" or less.  4" of good, fresh ice is safe for one person.  When you go skating on wild ice, bring an ice spud or ax to test thickness before skating.   Now, according to Internet info, no ice is considered totally safe. It can vary a lot.   That's why we always have a Safe...]]></description>
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	<title>When Snow is Low: Ski the Lakes!</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1439</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - OK, say you have SOME snow but not a lot. The trails are thin. It's been cold a week or two. Well, go find yourself a nice, meandering, woodsy lake or swamp and go for a refreshing "big sky" ski!   Our local skiing is mostly in the woods. But it's great to get out and do some "big sky" ice skiing. Early in the season our local...]]></description>
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	<title>Cold, But Low Snow? ...Go for Wild Ice!</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1431</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - OK, we're in the midst of our January Thaw right now. It's dragging out. We lost our sweet skiing snow. But now it's cold all over again. Yet we can't ski. Ugh. What to do?  GO WILD ICE SKATING!  The lake ice had gotten bad, what with the mixed weather of the last month, but after the big melt the lakes got all smooth. Now i...]]></description>
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	<title>OYB as an Outdoor Rec Program?</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1436</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - The MMBA Show was interesting. I like throwing a booth a few times a year -- gets me outta the house. I got an Inspiration at this show. I'm starting to think that books aren't where it's at. Books were helpful to me as a kid, and have been hugely helpful to me throughout my whole life, but in general the peoples don't seem into...]]></description>
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	<title>If OYB went Pro?</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1437</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - I just read a WSJ story about smallshop guys who offer knifesharpening services. The story spent most of its attention on evaluating the various levels of ordering/shipping service.  I wonder how much good it would do OYB if I could do same-day shipping and had a totally pro buying/shipping interface.  I wonder how many of m...]]></description>
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	<title>SUP: Now HUGE but still no canoes...</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1435</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - That's Jennifer Aniston doing "Stand Up Paddling." So you know it's big.  SUP has a buncha websites, companies, races...and its own magazine.  Lots people do it on flatwater for exercise. They use windsurfer boards. (There's a guy who does it on our local lake.)  But I've yet to see any mention of people doing it in a CANO...]]></description>
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	<title>OYB Now Caught Up on Hot New Tips!</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1432</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - The OYB Homepage has, like, 60 recent posts!  I'd been backlogged on cool links, tips and ideas since before Xmas. Now they're all in!  Actually, I still have some sweet fresh mags to profile, but, whew...  So, feel free to take a scroll down thru the diversity of indie roots outdoor culture that is OYB!]]></description>
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	<title>All I ask for is a little awareness...</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1433</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - I don't care what people do, only that they aren't ignorant about obvious things.   Like Michiganders who say they don't like the winter because it's cold.  Ugh!  Nobody likes the cold. Nobody can stand the cold. Cold kills. If you're cold you eventually die. That's why anyone who grows up around here, in reality (rather t...]]></description>
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	<title>Personalizing Our Stuff: Folk Art</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1434</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - Some people personalize their stuff.  The old-time people did it a lot, but modern people do, too.   When, who, why?  I suppose it's often people who have crafty skills who do this. Or who have a need to express themselves. Hence, folk art.  People don't modify their stuff when it's a commodity: when it's not really thei...]]></description>
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	<title>MMBA Expo: Mt-Bike Show this Sunday!</title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.mmba.org/]]></link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - This Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010, is the MMBA's Annual Meeting and Bike Expo. It runs most of the day at the MSU Pavilion in East Lansing.  There's a free indoor dirt track for your winter riding pleasure.  And the main guest speaking is Dave Wiens of Colorado, a retired mtbike pro racer and 6X champ of the Leadville 100...where h...]]></description>
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	<title>Traditional Archery Expo: Huge Annual Event 1/29-31, Kalamazoo</title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.gnbco.com/expo.htm]]></link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - The huge annual traditional archery expo is happening this weekend in Kalamazoo. All kinds of displays, booths and workshops ongoing from Fri-Sun.   Flintknapping, whittling selfbows, laminating recurves, horn, wood, primitive, hightech epoxies, historic, reenacting, fantasy, Indian, Asian,  -- you name it, it's going to be th...]]></description>
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	<title>Quietwater Symposium: Michigan's Indoor Outdoor Fest! 3/6</title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.quietwatersymposium.org/]]></link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - It's coming!  The QWS is a great way to spend the day learning new things, making new friends. Bust up that cabin fever!  (Spending the day XC skiing in a prime locale up north would have to come second to this, I'm afraid. Well, it might be a tie.)  The QWS sounds like it might be just boating, but it's not -- it's all th...]]></description>
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	<title>A Successful Commune in the US: the Llano Colony of 1914</title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.lpb.org/programs/utopia/article.html]]></link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - [From the report at this weblink:]   ...The hopes and ideals of over 10,000 people came together to create America's longest lived socialist community, the Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony.  For a whole generation, the Llano Colony practiced what the rest of the American Left preached: a livable wage, an eight-hour work day,...]]></description>
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	<title>Winner of Copenhagen Citybike Design Contest...</title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.cphbikeshare.com/winners.aspx]]></link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - Copenhagen had a citybike design contest this past year for the bike that they'll offer in a citywide bikeshare program. Here's what won... The link shows the runner-ups, the details and program goals.  Interesting that 20" wheels and a very stout front platform won the day.  20" wheels that are narrow, as these look to be, ...]]></description>
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	<title>Veloquent: a blog of bike inspiration</title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://veloquent.blogspot.com/]]></link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - Veloquent is a blog dedicated to bike writing. It has a dozen contributors to try to keep the ball rolling. The archive is pretty deep. Kent Peterson and Jacquie Phelan are among the gang...]]></description>
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