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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>Sat Feb 4 2012 13:30:54 MST</pubDate>

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	<title>How About an American Drilling? (What's a Drilling, you ask?)</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1855</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - <b>"One gun to rule them all." </b>  A perennial hook'n'bullet campfire discussion is "If you could only have one gun..." I admit I'm happy to go there. And, like many, there are Swiss Army Knife influences on my gun interests. Versatility is something one can easily pine for. Most hunting is actually quite specialized, howeve...]]></description>
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	<title>Hybrid Guns, Ahoy! </title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1856</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - Freak guns, ahoy!  Weird gun hybrids are popping up a lot these days. Budget gunmakers Rossi, Taurus, and HandR seem to be leading the charge. What's up with those guys? Who's in charge? I sense wild characters at work. Some "car guys" have been given the keys to the factory and is cranking out some seriously creative firearms...]]></description>
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	<title>Marbles Reissues Classic "Game Getter" Pack-Gun!</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1857</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - I just found out that Marbles has re-issued their classic combi-gun, the Game-Getter. I've been posting and harping about this gun for years. I can't believe I missed this new item. Maybe I overlooked it because it's pricey and the barrel is too long, but whatever, it seems clearly like news.  The Game-Getter has always been "...]]></description>
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	<title>Water Tribe Small Boat Everglades Challenge, March 3</title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.watertribe.com/]]></link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - Mark it on your calendar to go to the site and follow the news and action online via the Spots and report-in's.   300 miles self-supported around the Florida peninsula by canoe, kayak, small sailboat.   It seems to take the winners and hard-chargers a few days to a week.   But then there was the year with the strong beam-r...]]></description>
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	<title>The Moveable Feast: Flexible Ski Events Go Where There's Snow</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1853</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - It almost seems like the structured-event approach to skiing should change (to a degree). The answer seems to be for folks to just drive to where there's snow as need be. Any trail with snow on it, groomed or not, can handle hundreds of fun-hogs. Like, we have no snow in SE MI, but I heard Marquette was just pounded. So let's ju...]]></description>
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	<title>Skiing Outside the Box: Learn from Mt-biking?</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1854</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - I just got the new issue of Dirt Rag and read the cover story on the new US rage for Eurostyle enduro racing. It's been booming in Europe, now it's here.  Enduro mtbiking is a combination of XC and DH. Typical riders have been finding XC to be too uber-fitness oriented and DH too extreme with big air and ultra-specialized robo...]]></description>
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	<title>"To the Head!" -- Background Info about Mysterious Tele-Ski and Safety Cult</title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20110130/NEWS/110129777]]></link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - It was a global underground society. Called "Planetary Defense." Mark told me about it then gave me the proper apparel and told me about the salute: "To the head!" The group was dedicated to parades, telemark skiing, safety, and...and...I forget.  Here's a link to a Summit County, CO, news story about the group, and its founde...]]></description>
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	<title>Wondering What Happened to Biff America, Ski Bum...</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1852</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - I was just wondering about what might've happened to an old ski bum acquaintance from Breckenridge days in the mid-80's so I looked him up. Google is like that.  Biff America (aka Jeff Bergeron) was a wild character who had a public access TV show. He was from Boston and still had the accent to prove it. For some reason I reca...]]></description>
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	<title>George Herter's Child-rearing Theory</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1849</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - George Herter is a 50's-era hero of mine. He ran a sporting goods empire and wrote dozens of books on dozens of diverse topics that he sold through his sporting goods catalog. He was an opinionated bon vivant. Some say he knew what he was talking about, but his Bull Cook cookbooks are something else. How does he know all this fo...]]></description>
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	<title>Skiing the Gatineau Big Loop! -- 95km in a Day!</title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.xcottawa.ca/articles.php?id=1047]]></link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - OK, they call it the "Grande Boucle" up there.   It's an idea that has only been accomplished a few times.  Here's a link to a report about a posse' of young'uns who ski-skated all around the whole Gatineau trail system a few springs ago. It was a sunny warm spring crust skiing sort of day.   But I'll let them tell the res...]]></description>
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	<title>Frank Allison Documentary: Funnest Michigan Band</title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDoBy6bf13k]]></link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - I've posted stuff about Frank here before, but it was with a post about Goober, so here he is on his own now, sheesh.   Frank Allison and the Odd Sox was the funnest band ever. They were based out of Ann Arbor in the 1990's and they drew weekly crowds for about a decade, until Frank's vocal cords got injured (same as Diane Reh...]]></description>
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	<title>Weird Fun Music, Michigan-Style</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1847</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - If you like weird Michigan music (synonymous?) you gotta check out the YouTubes (and CDs) that I've linked to here before.   No, Michigan isn't weird, it's special. Bold and distinctive. Doesn't mind being funny.   I won't link to 'em again because I see they're still there down below, but here's a quick runthrough of some b...]]></description>
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	<title>Yankee Springs Resort: Cheap!</title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://longlakeoutdoorcenter.com]]></link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - The Long Lake Outdoor Center is a traditional CCC-built rustic resort located in the Yankee Springs Rec Area in Western Michigan. It rents on a scalable basis for about $6/head from 4 to 200 campers, summer and winter. Seems like a great secret getaway location, to me!]]></description>
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	<title>Why Not Give Star Students the Star Athlete Treatment?</title>
	<link>http://www.outyourbackdoor.com/article.php?id=1843</link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - Every newspaper contains action-packed accounts of young student athletes -- many in grade school -- and the explanations their eager coaches have for their latest exploits. They also interview the kids as to what recently went down.  Now there are also a lot of other action-packed kids and students out there who interact with...]]></description>
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	<title>Vintage "All Mountain" Ski Skills Video... Striding Doublepole!</title>
	<link><![CDATA[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIRTPw-E8_k]]></link>
	<description><![CDATA[December 31, 1969 - Here's a neat vintage video from the US Military, probably the 10th Mountain Division, showing basic skiing skills, including cross country techniques. The Striding Doublepole and Pendulum "Three Step" are described. The Advanced and Beginner parts of this series are also well worth checking out.  <iframe width="420" height="3 >...]]></description>
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