Being a 20-something ski bum in Fort Collins, Colo., just wasn’t fun enough for Michael Guerriero: Party opportunities tended to melt away when the snow did — so that’s when he hit the road.
He puts it like this: “Basically, before and after ski season, my friends and I would drive from Lake Tahoe to the East Coast and back to the Rockies, following an asphalt zig-zag from one festival to the next.  Details
….Fiona Lindsay, 36, a physiotherapist, will take his route in reverse, starting from the ice station that he built in a previous expedition in 1930, hauling a sledge across hundreds of miles to the midpoint of the Greenland ice sheet before setting her kite sailing on a southwesterly wind, which will drag her and her three companions to the western coast.
The expedition will raise money for an orphanage in northern Greenland and help to prepare Ms Lindsay for a kite-skiing assault on…. Details
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Typically a rock thrown in water sinks, but that’s just what engineers at UCSD are trying to avoid.
The students said “bon-voyage” to a twenty-five-foot “concrete canoe” Thursday, that will hopefully take sail in Hawaii next month as part of a civil engineer’s competition.
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Hokule’a, with a fresh crew of 12 flown in from Hawaii, will set sail for the islands from Palmyra Atoll on Tuesday.
Surrounded by 400 melon-headed whales, the double-hulled canoe was escorted into the remote pacific island’s main channel by a pod of dolphins and manta rays at around 10:45 a.m. yesterday, completing a 1,000-mile journey that began March 10.
The crew reported …. Details
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