From The Strib- A Minnesota teen in a hiking party of eight died from dehydration after the group ran out of water.

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From the Star Tribune website. This sounds pretty scary! A driver in Dakota County was charged with a felony for allegedly threatening a cyclist with an ax.


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Here is a link to great article on the City Pages website about local skateboarding legends in Minneapolis.

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This is a clip from CNN about Skateistan. It's a skateboarding school in Afghanistan where kids skate on and around an old Soviet era fountain. Soon they will be getting a 19,000 square foot indoor skate park!

This is from the the American Academy of Pediatrics website. It has some good information on bicycling with a child on board.

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Dominic Hargreaves, a 24 year old student from Battersea, London has invented a bicycle that folds to fit within the circumference of a 26-inch wheel. It's pretty amazing how this bike folds up into something that small and it can be pulled along with one of the handle bars.

Here's a great article on riverboarding the Kettle River. Looks like they are going through the hells gate section in Banning State Park.

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So a few years back some climbers were taken hostage in an area everyone told them was unsafe. They went anyway and I was subjected to countless articles about the climbers eating yogurt balls to survive the ordeal. Did we learn anything from the last episode? Are you really a victim if you get captured in a place that is known to be very, very unsafe for travel?

According to Bob Whaley, chief ranger for the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, people need to pick up when they go. This year there is a new policy on bringing portable toilets on the river. You must have one or you will get fined. Apparently some folks out there think it's someone else should have to clean up their toilet paper feces.

Last year 13 cyclists were killed on Minnesota roads. It's the largest number of cycling deaths since 2000. Take a look at the Minnesota Department of Transportation website and find out how to avoid being one of the people involved in these tragedies.

http://www.dot.state.mn.us/newsrels/09/05/04bicycle.html