Hello to all who remain as we close out our final weeks here at Oursalon.

Hello to all who remain as we close out our final weeks here at Oursalon.

Information on Mount Rainier climbing conditions updated by Climbing Rangers.

Imagine a book written from the perspective of Robin Hood. Throughout the whole book, we have a first person perspective in which the protagonist...

How do you tackle it? Do you detail it from experience or is it totally imaginary?

Sportives are a great way to enjoy cycling with likeminded people, exploring new routes and challenging yourself.

Closed Road Sportives in the UK are special cycling events, a unique experience in the UK to cycle on roads, free of traffic other than thousands of fellow cyclists. UK Sportives include Ride London, Velo Birmingham, Velo North, Velo South, Etape Caledonia, Tour o the Borders ...

List of the best Wirral sportives and cycling events on Merseyside in 2019. Includes routes, maps and GPS download files in GPX / TCX format.

List of the Best Cheshire Sportives. Cycle across stunning Cheshire countryside on organised cycle sportives, for fun or for charity.

The Cheshire Cat Sportive is an iconic cycling event in Cheshire, not least because of the infamous Mow Cop killer mile climb but because it's simply one of the best Sportives in the North-West.

The SB team takes Copenhagen for its 2019 Open. Ishod won, but nobody loses at CPH.

The exhibit travels to New York to honor the movement’s most important pioneers

Robert Mitchell wins his first gold bracelet and $297,537 after winning the $800 No Limit Hold'em Deepstack, defeating 2800 plus entries over 3 days.

'Catching Up With' is a new series, which aims to highlight past and present members of the ski community, who are doing things differently, be it within

Whether you want to be in the thick of the action, or get away from it all, here are some of the coolest places to stay in the entire state.

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Titouan Flechet is 15 years of age and really performs well in the waves. He had good conditions in France during the spring. Now he is ready for great summer

After we reported how a drunk, homeless man took a $400K sailboat for a joy ride on Lake Michigan, here's a statement from the boat's owner: Sailing

The Atlantic Cup will once again host in 2020 the longest offshore race in the Western Atlantic dedicated to the Class40. Defending 2018 champion E

Porto Cervo, Italy (June 19, 2019) - The third day of the Star Class World Championship has its third leader as the consistency of Augie Diaz (USA) now

With Chris Froome injured and Geraint Thomas banged up, Egan Bernal hopes to make a mark at the Tour de Suisse, on his way toward the Tour de France.

In some fundamental ways, humans haven't changed all that much since the days when we were sitting around communal fires, telling tales. Although we don't always recognize them as such, stories, symbols, and rituals still have tremendous, primal power to move us and shape our lives. This is no less ...

The word "creative" is sometimes waved around like a badge of honor. We speak of creativity in hushed tones, as the special province of the "talented". In reality, the creative process is messy, open, and vulnerable. For this reason, creativity is often at its best in a group setting like brainstorm...

Climate scientists say that Greenland is experiencing ice losses that are unusually early and heavy. Two main weather factors are fueling the losses: A high-pressure system and the resulting low cloud cover. Typically, Greenland is covered in ice. Due to climate change, that ice has melted, making Greenland a major contributor to sea-level rise.

A team of researchers discovered that permafrost in Northern Canada is melting at unusually fast rates. This could causes dangerous and costly erosion, and it's likely speeding up climate change because thawing permafrost releases heat-trapping gasses into the atmosphere. This week, Canada's House of Commons declared a national climate emergency.

Writing a scene where the general of a fantasy medieval-style army is talking to the troops about the upcoming battle and I've used the phrase "engage...

Hi! My name's Laura! It's my real name but I post almost everything under the name Nakx. (FYI Nakx is a random name (I don't even think it exists) but...

This Podcast is was originally published on July 4, 2009, I have updated it with our new Podcast host information and I am representing it now. I hope you enjoy it, Joey Give up your Studio’s Spinning credentials because you want to use a different Indoor Cycling bike? Blasphemy! And yet Gene Nacey from Global Ride Studios has done exactly that. Gene is a firm believer in the value of

Gilbert Rowley's The Buffet Series continues with a winter steelhead adventure in the rain forests of the Olympic Peninsula. Follow C...

The latest issue of SCALE Magazine is live and it's nearly 300 pages are a fun mix of fly and spin angling from around the world.

Poetry: damn it for its storm versus calm, misplaced lightning coming down,  metaphor over all trench warfare way of life. If it weren't for poetry, I'd have gotten more sleep. Maybe I could have been happy: a little blinder, certainly; maybe a tad less overwhelmed by just breathing on Earth among all its poisons and?

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People don't like change, but in order to make your story believeable and satisfying, your characters must change. Here's how characters change.

Already, The New York Times had credited Bruce Cockburn with having “the hardest-working right thumb in show business,” adding that he “materializes chords and modal filigrees while his thumb provides the music’s pulse and its foundation—at once a deep Celtic drone and the throb of a vigilant conscience.”

Beloved former MTV VJs Downtown Julie Brown and Matt Pinfield, rock superstar Don Felder and film, television and stand up comedy legend Tommy Chong are the pop culture icons and experts who host the AXS TV series. A Year In Music puts the spotlight on a different year each week

Traditional GC58PBZ by team vos 2014 Difficulty: 2.5 Terrain: 1.5 Location: Noord-Holland, Netherlands N 52° 15.575? E 004° 34.251? Ever find a geocache so hot that it was placed direct…