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Daytrippers: Vermont Snowmobile Tour
FOX CTSomewhere in the whitened wilderness outside Mount Snow, Vt., as the wind whips through acres of huddled pines, comes the thick drone of a herd of high-powered snowmobiles. It's the only way to go. "It's a totally different experience," said Mark...Tags: Vehicles, Forestry and Timber, WTIC, Sports
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Getting the hang of it — hang gliding, that is
With a pneumatic whoooooooosh, I leave Earth again, and I am not even propelled by the sort of happy hour rocket fuel with which I'm sometimes associated. In truth, I do not have many happy hours. I have happy minutes, happy moments. An entire hour?...
Tags: Los Angeles International Airport, Sports, Sally Field
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Florida Travel Tips & Deals
Special CorrespondentCheck this list often as new tips, events and deals around Florida come in: Partnership for cruise line The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), founded nearly 200 years ago to advance geographical science, is to...Tags: Starbucks Corp., U.S. Coast Guard, Folklore and Mythology, Guggenheim Museum, Environmental Cleanup
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Bucket list rec program takes off in Roanoke
ReporterIs skydiving on your bucket list? If it is, Roanoke Parks and Recreation can help. Skydiving is the first experience in the department's new bucket list series. So far, six women have signed up for a day trip to a North Carolina skydiving center in...Tags: Travel, Skydiving, Trips and Vacations, Sports
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Popular Pays turns Instagram followers into social currency
RedEyePopularity on social networks, like Instagram, can get you more than a few “likes” and internet fame. With the creation of social currency platform Popular Pays, digital-saavy Chicagoans can now leverage their volume of followers for goods...Tags: Skydiving, Social Media, Marketing, Advertising, Arts and Culture
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DeLand sky diver dies of injuries suffered in crash landing
A DeLand sky diver who broke his neck during a jump last month has died, a hospital said Friday. Michael Truffer, a longtime advocate of the sport, died Thursday at about 3:44 p.m., a nursing supervisor said. Truffer, known as Mike, was 63. He also...
Tags: Skydiving, Parachuting, Sports
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Army Paratrooper Injured at JBER During Jump Exercise
Channel 2 NewsAn Alaska-based Army paratrooper was injured Tuesday at the Malemute Drop Zone on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, according to U.S. Army Alaska officials. The injury occurred during Operation Spartan Reach, a mass tactical airborne training event...Tags: Parachuting, Armed Forces, Sports, U.S. Army
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Sky diver's neck broken in freak chute accident
The Central Florida sky-diving community was stunned Monday to learn that a freak accident had left a longtime advocate for the sport, Michael Truffer, in a hospital with grave injuries. The DeLand resident, known as Mike, broke his neck during a jump...
Tags: Skydiving, Parachuting, Sports
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Man, 62, injured after jump at Skydive DeLand
A sky diver was transported to Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach after a rough landing in DeLand, police say. The 62-year-old man made the jump with Skydive DeLand on Saturday. He landed in a Volusia County school bus park, a maintenance...
Tags: Skydiving, Parachuting, Sports
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Parachutist falls to his death in Lake Elsinore
A 62-year-old skydiver was killed Saturday after he became entangled in a parachute and plummeted into a Lake Elsinore backyard, authorities said. Ken Oka, of Mira Loma, was performing a maneuver with a group of skydivers shortly after 3 p.m. when he...Tags: Skydiving, Federal Aviation Administration, Parachuting, Sports
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Greenpeace drops item on Swedish reactor from glider to make point
dpaSTOCKHOLM Environmental pressure group Greenpeace on Tuesday said it flew a paraglider over a nuclear reactor building in south-western Sweden and dropped an item upon it from the air to show how vulnerable the facilities were. "As evidenced by the new...Tags: Greenpeace, Nuclear Power, Sports
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Lawrenceville native strives to fly from world's wonders
The Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewJon Potter didn't need to be asked twice. When a guard pointed to the top of the Bent Pyramid, Potter quickly climbed up through cracks in its limestone face. The 22-year-old Lawrenceville native carried the equipment of a small fabric-winged speedflyer...Tags: Skydiving, Sports
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