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Video: 'Fast & Light' on Border Route Trail

In our new video, "24 Hours on the Border Route," Gear Junkie and crew traveled to northern Minnesota to traverse a renowned 65-mile wilderness route. Drama ensues when the group gets lost in the night, their compasses malfunctioning due to high quantities of natural iron in the rock. Get ready to trek!

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Team GearJunkie/YogaSlackers Wins!

On July 9, in the squad's debut adventure race for this summer, Team GearJunkie/YogaSlackers pushed for 6 hours and 16 minutes to take first place overall in the 10th Annual MNOC Adventure-O!

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'Canyoning' in the Austrian Alps

Gear Junkie's Austrian adventure continues with a canyoning session deep inside a river gorge in the Alps. Rappelling waterfalls, leaps, and cold-water swims included in the trip.

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Race Faces: 'Almanzo 100'

High-gloss portraiture by David Gabrys highlights the mud-caked glory that is the Almanzo 100, a gravel-road bike race held annually in the steep bluff country of southeastern Minnesota.

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Trailer: Wenger Patagonian Exped Race 2011

The long-awaited trailer for the Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race is here. Check out Gear Junkie Stephen Regenold crazy and zonked out of his mind at 42 seconds into the clip!

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Report: 'Almanzo 100' Gravel Road Bike Race

Minnesota's infamous gravel-road bike race pits riders against the unlikely challenge of farm-country back roads that wind for 100 miles in the hilly southeastern part of the state. Mud, rain, and frozen winds did not help this year. Our writer, who took 7th place in the event, provides a full report.

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Primal Quest Adventure Race 2012

It's back! The self-proclaimed “World’s Most Challenging Human Endurance Competition,” the Primal Quest Adventure Race, is officially on for 2012, as per a brief news report on the race's website this week.

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Earthquake Shock

The tragic news of the earthquake in Chile hit hard with the Gear Junkie crew, which just returned from the country last week.

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Final Patagonian Race Report

While the goal of every race is to win, most teams came just for the opportunity to race in what most see as the toughest, most beautiful, most demanding race on the planet.

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Patagonia Race Report #8

The race and all scheduled events are now over. This morning a large chunk of the teams are already on their long journey home. The rest of us are in town for 24 hours or less. It is hard to believe that the whole thing is finished. Last night we met at a restaurant and conducted the closing ceremonies.

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Orienteering race this wkend. Good times in northern MN! (Fell in swamp; cut up legs; ran prob. 15K in woods looking for orange flags. . .)