NATURAL RESOURCES INTERNET.Byline: - Chris Cocoles --Less filling: Who wants to hike through some outpost in the middle of nowhere with a backpack that makes your back stiff and your chiropractor salivate sal·i·vate v. 1. To secrete or produce saliva. 2. To produce excessive salivation in. ? Try AntiGravityGear, ultralight ul·tra·light n. A recreational aircraft constructed of lightweight materials such as aluminum, graphite composites, or high-strength plastics, having an engine of roughly 15 to 40 horsepower and often resembling a hang glider with wings. hiking equipment for sale on the Internet (www.antigravitygear.com). The idea was conceived in 2000 after a Boy Scout backpacking trip in North Carolina determined the packs the scouts and their chaperones were toting around had to contain lighter alternatives. ``Why, we could even make an antigravity an·ti·grav·i·ty n. The hypothetical effect of reducing or canceling a gravitational field. an suit to carry our gear and sell it for a fortune!!'' The suit has yet to be devised, but what is available are such feathery feath·er·y adj. 1. Covered with or consisting of feathers. 2. Resembling or suggestive of a feather, as in form or lightness. feath items as a four-tenths ounce alcohol-powered stove that boils 2 cups of water in five minutes or less with fewer than than 1 ounce of denatured alcohol. Also for sale is ``Mama's Kitchen Cook Set,'' a 14.4-ounce collection that features the aforementioned alcohol stove, a 2-quart pot and a 3-cup pot with a lid. And what trip checklist can go without a headlamp, weighing in at 3 ounces, which is a ``unique triangular configuration of three high output L.E.D. lamps (which) provides an extremely even beam of light that keeps shadows to a minimum.'' --Riding off: Some good local mountain-biking Web sites worth checking out include Los Angeles Bike Paths Bike paths in the greater Los Angeles area are divided into "classes" which seem to vary in definition from document to document, but essentially are:
Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. Bicycle Club (www.sfvbc.org) and Mountain Bike Rides in the Los Angeles Area(www.geocities.com/Yosemite/trails/2521/LosAngelesmountainbike.html) CAPTION(S): box Box: TUNE IN |
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