Published On Thursday, October 15th 2009
Mountainboarding hasn't really hit Minnesota ski slopes yet, although there's a local company making equipment for the extreme sport.
Golden Valley's Turfboard calls its product an all-terrain mountain board, featuring four-wheel independent suspension, special tires and dual drum brakes. ... Read More
Published On Thursday, October 15th 2009
The latest fad for escaping the summer doldrums at ski resorts is not for the timid.
It involves racing down steep grassy slopes on something that looks like a long skateboard with shock absorbers and overgrown wheels jutting from ... Read More
Published On Thursday, October 15th 2009
Voyageurs National Park has made it through a sometimes tumultuous adolescence and will celebrate its 25th anniversary this weekend.
But park officials won't get long to enjoy the milestone -- the National Park Service is already plotting Voyageurs' next ... Read More
Published On Thursday, October 15th 2009
Call it the coming out party for Minnesota's newest wildlife conservation and political organization.
The Game and Fish Coalition, the brainchild of Bloomington businessman John Tschohl, will sponsor a booth at the Game Fair celebration in Anoka, which ... Read More
Published On Thursday, October 15th 2009
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is predicting a banner fall flight of ducks in North America, but how the migration pans out in Minnesota is anybody's guess.
This year's fall flight index is 90 million ducks, compared with ... Read More
Published On Thursday, October 15th 2009
The Make-a-Wish Foundation no longer will grant wishes to ill children that involve hunting or shooting, reversing a policy that thrust the foundation and a Minnesota teen-ager with brain cancer into an international furor four years ago.
The ... Read More
Published On Thursday, October 15th 2009
One of the Twin Cities' premiere mountain biking venues will be open for a daylong festival this Saturday near Shakopee.
The Murphy-Hanrehan Mountain Bike Festival will feature test bikes, seminars on equipment and riding technique, door prizes and a ... Read More
Published On Thursday, October 15th 2009
Besides beginners and racing classes in the Optimist dinghy, the Lake Calhoun Sailing School teaches young sailors in Lido 14s and X-boat racing. A new introduction-to-sailing class for 4- and 5-year-olds and their parents and an introduction to racing for ... Read More
Published On Thursday, October 15th 2009
A last, the east metro area is being blessed with the kind of quality, upscale public golf courses that used to appear only in the west metro. StoneRidge in Stillwater, which opened rather quietly a month ago, can ... Read More
Published On Thursday, October 15th 2009
Little kids may have trouble remembering windward vs. leeward, starboard vs. port and tacking vs. jibing, but they have one big advantage over most adults when it comes to learning how to sail: They're not afraid to ... Read More
