After a Flat Week, Riders Turn to the Mountains
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After a week of six long road stages, the Tour de France heads into the Alps on Saturday for four days of grueling mountain stages sure to cause a shake-up in the standings.
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By Joey Holleman, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Sep. 15--Oh, my aching calves!   If you're heading to a mountain state park for a day hike or a weekend camping trip this fall, here's a tip: You don't have to cross S.C. 11.
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Adventurer cyclist Edward Genochio was ridden off the road by motorcycle muggers and faced some of the world's steepest mountain roads in an epic 10-month, 20,000-kilometre (12,500-mile) cycle trek across two continents.
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The contenders for the Nextel Cup championship moved to the front of the field without turning a lap Friday at Darlington Raceway.
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CALGARY -- Kananaskis Country will take on a Tour de France feel tomorrow as its perennial champion Lance Armstrong leads a swarm of cyclists through the Rockies.
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Mountain unicycling isn't the most glamorous sport, but is takes just as much skill - and courage - as the other 'extremes.'
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By Lee Bloomquist, Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 16--SILVER BAY -- As all-terrain vehicle riders traveled along a rocky, dusty trail on the edge of Silver Bay on Friday, they passed signs pointing to the city's AmericInn Lodge & Suites, a restaurant and other lodging.
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With its snake charmers,  storytellers and palm trees against a backdrop of snow-capped  mountains, Marrakesh was once an offbeat destination for rich  or adventurous Europeans.
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MINDEN, Nev., Sept. 13 -- The emptiness that adventure pilot Steve Fossett disappeared into at 10:30 a.m. on Labor Day appears almost endless from the air, a rugged moonscape of mountain ridges that deepen from brown to purple before dissolving into the horizon itself. There are mountains and more...
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Rise before dawn on Sunday, prepare a thermos of hot cocoa, bundle up, drive to some spot where mountains don't obstruct the eastern horizon -- and watch an astronomical grouping not seen since the Civil War.
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HOOD RIVER, Ore., Dec. 16 -- Expert mountaineers tried Saturday to take advantage of easing weather conditions atop Mount Hood in the search for three missing climbers, but the fickle and still-treacherous conditions turned them back.
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Only weeks ago, she could have gotten home by bicycle.
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Looks like the Way Forward will be a low-frills ride.
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The riders face eight climbs on stage five as the Tour de France speeds towards the Alps.
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A measure of normalcy began to return to this resort community Thursday, even as crews battled an unpredictable mountain wildfire for a fifth day. Sunbathers ventured to some beaches, and the smoke lurking in the mountains largely cleared.
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Travel: As the professionals race through France, two podgy Irishmen embark on their own gruelling tour, across the Tatra mountains. By John O'Mahony.
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We give out a HINT and some Prosperity in this week's list of low-riders.