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A Pleasant Surprise

I received an email from Austin-Lehman Adventures last week. They said that they had picked Matt-Gibson.org as one of the 125 semi-finalists in their “Best Travel Blog Contest”.

As such, I am one of the privileged 125 bloggers that has been given the opportunity to participate in the Austin-Lehman Adventure of Your Choice Sweepstakes.

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Me and My Bro in the Snowboard Park

My brother and I both started skiing at the age of 3. When I was 12 and he was 15 we both started snowboarding. The first couple of years we snowboarded together, but in our teens we began to hang out in different circles and rarely went to the ski hill together. The last time I spent a good day snowboarding with my brother was probably when I was 16, which was 16 years ago.

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Top 10 Reasons to Visit a BC Park in 2011

Guest Post By Jack Christie | Photo by Tourism BC/Albert Normandin

It’s party time at BC’s parks.

This year, one of the world’s finest collections of protected landscapes — from ocean and freshwater shorelines to alpine peaks — celebrates its 100th anniversary. Ranging in size from a cupcake to a one million-hectare (400,000-acre) confection, there’s a park to suit any number of candles.

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Links of the Week April 10th – 17th: The Best in Adventure Travel News and Stories

Greg Mortenson, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and author of Three Cups of Tea, a book recounting his experiences founding the Central Asia Institute (an educational charity in Pakistan and Afghanistan), was accused of making up parts of the book, using the charity as his “personal ATM”, and overstating the activities of the charity. Read more in The Telegraph

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