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	<title>Out Your Backdoor - Featured Articles</title>
	<description>Do-It-Yourself Culture</description>
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	<copyright>Copyright 1991-2012 Jeff Potter</copyright>
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	<pubDate>Thu May 17 2012 3:31:49 MDT</pubDate>

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	<title>Sweet New Flashlights (for Bikes) -- Cheap!</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1911</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - Personal lighting is booming like crazy right now. And, yeah, a lot of it on the dirt-cheap side is coming from Hong Kong.   http://Dealextreme.com is rockin' the big firepower for little money like it always has. I recently picked up a jillion-lumen "Fandyfire" Cree light for, like, $17 with free shipping. 900 lumens, maybe?...]]></description>
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	<title>How to Paddle</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1910</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - Supreme canoe paddling tip: Reach forward with both upper hand and lower hand. Arms straightish. Rotate to reach. Hit it hardest at the catch. Drop upper hand inward to lift blade out to the side at hip. Don't bend arms much. --This method saves energy and makes a boat go much easier/faster for a given effort. You can also tilt ...]]></description>
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	<title>Neighborhood Adventure Race: What Fun!</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1908</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - A neighborhood Adventure Race -- that's what I'm talking about! 8 of us had a casual blast today thru 4 challenging stages within a mile of home. It was the 2nd annual one for our little gang of fellow-employees, etc.  A wide variety of action rewarded a range of skillsets. Comebacks and upsets! We didn't know until the party ...]]></description>
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	<title>First Singletrack Canoe Race a Success!</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1909</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - We had a blast canoe racing a couple days ago as the finale of our neighborhood Adventure Race.   It was a several-mile leg that really challenged our skills. We had four teams and all boats and paddlers had differing skillsets -- it was neat to see it all play out.   The river was VERY challenging -- very twisty with 3 port...]]></description>
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	<title>Neighborhood Adventure Race: What Fun!</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - A neighborhood Adventure Race -- that's what I'm talking about! 8 of us had a casual blast today thru 4 challenging stages within a mile of home. It was the 2nd annual one for our little gang of fellow-employees, etc.  A wide variety of action rewarded a range of skillsets. Comebacks and upsets! We didn't know until the party ...]]></description>
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	<title>RadNord and Roger Succeed with Big Push</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1907</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - This pic and telegraph just in from Radnord: "3 days, just shy of 140 miles. All but about 23 on actual [...] trail. 7 hrs 1st day, 12 hrs 2nd, 10 hrs 3rd. Huge, relentlezs hllls.. Very cool."   Dang! Self-supported downstaters doing a HUGE upnorth push! ...Camping out on the trailbikes, doing big days in the big hills. Congra...]]></description>
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	<title>Spring Mushrooms: Need Help ID'ing this One...</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1904</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - OK, I know what kind the one mushroom is, but not the other. Does anyone know what the other one is? : ) And if you do, don't just write "Yes" and be even sillier than me, tell us what it is and if it's tasty. Thanks!]]></description>
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	<title>Prediction: SUPs sprout side-niche board shaped like canoe </title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1905</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - I have a hunch that many SUPers are going to start to want a board that will keep their stuff dry and maybe let them easily bring another person along and will go faster. It won't matter so much if it gets blown around so much because it'll be used on inland rivers.   I think SUPs will always stick around but that a side-niche...]]></description>
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	<title>Pondering Steampunk... (The Expo is coming!)</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1902</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - I've been pondering Steampunk of late. I checked out the book "Steampunk Bible." It's really good. It's helping clarify my hunches, but, wonderfully, I'm still way back in the jungle. It's good to add yet another long exploration into the mix. OK, I can see it's re-enacting for DIYers. It's role-playing that can be used toward u...]]></description>
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	<title>Old Gear Historian -- A Treasure Trove!</title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.oregonphotos.com/Backpacking-Revolution1.html]]></link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - SCORE! ...One for the oldtimers. This is what we grew up with! Read it and revel. Read it and imagine what it was like... Our inspiration... Coming at us, nonstop, from the innovators and garages...   So here's a guy who sees the forest for the trees.   I was just noticing my old Kelty pack the other day in the garage. Junk,...]]></description>
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	<title>Water Hill Music Fest: a Neighborhood Party</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1901</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - It's only the 2nd year but it's already blown up. I guess that's what blowing up means.   A chunk of the Old West Side neighborhood of Ann Arbor thought it would be fun to all go out on their porches and play music some Spring Sunday and so that's what they did. People play music already, and hang out on porches. But this was ...]]></description>
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	<title>Commuting: a Funny, Thoughtful, Macro/Micro Book on It</title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.amazon.com/The-Enlightened-Cyclist-Two-Wheeled-Trancendence/dp/1452105006/jeffpottersoutyoA/]]></link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - It's not just about the bike.  In the Bike Snob's second book he does better than in his debut book, I think, because here he really knows what he's talking about.  I'm a ways into it and I've also hopped around in it quite a bit. Offhand it seems far better than his first. He knows commuting and that's what he's covering he...]]></description>
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	<title>Why Things Stay Bad in the Hinterlands</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1899</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - Here's a thought: Culture in the hinterlands stays bad because people of means isolate themselves.   My hunch is that many of the well-to-do around here enjoy the quiet small town settings and a fairly open-ended, highly-compensated worklife connected to the local university and capitol (where they can teach and run research f...]]></description>
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	<title>Thankfully, the Jerk is Only Skin Deep</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1900</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - I just read the Bike Snob's story about how he was riding his bike in NYC on 9/11 and that in an emergency the jerks of the world drop their act and are truly caring underneath. That's a good thing to try to remember.   Here's my own story along the same lines that relates basically the same message, but in more an everyday wa...]]></description>
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	<title>Visit to: Motorcycle Hall of Fame</title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://picasaweb.google.com/104110048140101006653/MotorcycleHallOfFame]]></link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - On our recent family tenting drive around Ohio we visited the Motorcycle Hall of Fame. It's worth a stop!   It features the guys and gals behind motorcycling and the place where the people make the most difference, I suppose, is in motorsport. So the Hall is a celebration of American motorcycle racing heroes for the most part....]]></description>
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