Many people like to pack a point-and-shoot camera to record the fun and experience of a good nature hike or a camping trip. For some people though, taking a camera into the wilderness is serious business.

Winter hikers who love to savor the snowy woods but also like to stay upright now have a good option. For years, the choice has been full-blown crampons or often flimsy Yaktrax. Microspikes are a happy medium. The tough rubber uppers fit any boot or running shoe. The beefy steel chains beneath won't wear out. And the ]-inch-long spikes grip in ice and snow.

It's gotta be one of the most mixed up stories in sports. An NFL wide receiver is trying to make the U. S. Freestyle Olympic team for 2010 Vancouver Games. And he probably will, because he's been there twice before.

Local anglers won't want to let this big one get away -- the 16th annual Let's Go Fishing Show Friday through Sunday at the Gateway Center in Collinsville.

A drawing will be held Friday to allow 26 people to hunt antlerless deer during the late-winter deer season on part of the Baldwin Lake Waterfowl Rest Area at Kaskaskia River State Fish and Wildlife Area.

Skiing may be the most popular way to get out into the snow in the winter, but it is not for everyone.

ORANGE COUNTY, Calif.-When the heck does the sun go down?

As gorgeous and haunting as Steven Kazlowski's images are, there's nothing pretty about the work needed to get them.

I love these Indigenous ingredients used in many spa treatments:

The French may know wine and the Italians food, but no one knows how to nurture and spoil a body like the Jamaicans.

"Soul of the Rockies" by Ed Cooper

While your legs are the key to a successful and safe ski year, you also need to pay attention to your arms.

Make a vow to take the stiffness out of your joints this year. Stiffness in the joints is one of the most common complaints of those who are middle-aged and older. It becomes a vicious cycle; it's painful to move, so you don't move the stiff joints, so they get stiffer, so you move them less, they get more painful, and on it goes. But there's a great method to make your joints more flexible, and eliminate stiffness and pain. It's an easy 10-20 second full joint workout.

If a ski area had just nine lives, Arctic Valley would have used them up long ago.

New video clips have been added to the Mount St. Helens Web site, giving visitors a chance to take a virtual flight over the national volcanic monument.