Tag: hiking
group name: tws
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August 11, 2006 04:48 PM EDT --
As I scrambled around the mountainside behind my parents' motel in Ouray, Colorado, there would be some great views of the mountains surrounding town, not the least of which was Mount Hayden. . . . more
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October 23, 2006 12:41 AM EDT --
'Harmony with the land and the sea has never eluded the people of the central Pacific's largest island -- when they haven't been used and swindled by the world's industrial colonizers . . . more
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September 12, 2007 07:25 PM EDT --
I am in the clouds and truly at peace. My soul is free to soar with the wind. I am ecstatic to have escaped the confinement of regular life. The fog is alive, reaching its wispy . . . more
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May 18, 2007 08:39 PM EDT --
Eschewing the marked trail that winds through my local park, this morning, I made my own path.
My boots dug into a moist blanket of leaves. I felt a certain excitement, leaving the . . . more
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June 14, 2007 07:23 PM EDT --
Please join me in congratulating Barb W. for winning a copy of Pennsylvania Wilds: Images from the Allegheny National Forest. Barb won the book in the random drawing held this afternoon.
I only . . . more
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November 16, 2007 11:51 AM EST --
Part III of Switzerland Adventures Starring Your Intrepid Correspondent
By Marc Ethier
(Aforemen tioned) Gather Correspondent
"Martin, do you have a King?"
"Go . . . more
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May 11, 2007 10:28 PM EDT --
To finally place my hiking boots onto the Knobstone Trail here in southern Indiana was no small thrill. We had been talking about it for months.
Even though my partner, David, and I were . . . more
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October 19, 2007 03:00 PM EDT --
Part II of Switzerland
By Marc Ethier
Gather Travel Correspondent
A laundry list, the nitty-gritty, on this yearlong World Tour:
Countries : 26
Friends visited : 16
. . . more
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June 11, 2007 09:38 PM EDT --
But first you have to write about it.
Find yourself in the forest and tell us how you got there, what surprised you, and why you love the wilderness and you can win a signed copy of Pennsylvania Wilds: . . . more
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April 11, 2007 03:13 PM EDT --
For those who thought Mitt Romney was Utah’s best kept secret, think again. The real hidden gem is the Desert Pearl Inn, a charming hotel . . . more
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July 14, 2007 02:46 PM EDT --
Have a run-in with a raccoon? Forget your camp stove at home? Wake up to find your tent pitched in the middle of a trail and piss off a lot of hikers . . . wait, that happened to me.
Calling campers, . . . more
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May 11, 2007 11:01 AM EDT --
An Excerpt from
Pennsylvania Wilds: Images from the Allegheny National Forest
Story by Lisa Gensheimer, Photographs by Ed Bernik
© 2006 Forest Press
Linda Ordiway knows the songs of the forest by . . . more
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October 27, 2006 01:03 PM EDT --
Grand Mesa Slopes, Colorado
What's at stake?
The Grand Mesa Slopes tower stunningly above the Grand Valley in western Colorado. The area is home to a great diversity of forest types and wildlife habitat, . . . more
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October 24, 2006 02:24 PM EDT --
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Bridger-Teton National Forest's Wyoming Range, Wyoming
What's At Stake?
With spectacular mountain meadows, blue-ribbon trout streams . . . more
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October 31, 2006 10:22 AM EST --
Utah's Redrock Wilderness
What's at Stake?
Although much of Utah remains wild today, only approximately 1 million acres of this vast state are protected as wilderness. Citizens have identified . . . more
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November 17, 2006 11:39 AM EST --
Otero Mesa, New Mexico
What's at Stake?
Otero Mesa encompasses 1.2 million acres of Chihuahuan Desert grassland between the Hueco and Guadalupe Mountains in eastern New Mexico. This expanse of pristine . . . more
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October 19, 2006 01:50 PM EDT --
CALIFORNIA'S CARRIZO PLAIN NATIONAL MONUMENT
What's At Stake?
Visitors often describe California's Carrizo Plain as a place frozen in time. Known for its spectacular spring wildflower . . . more
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November 16, 2006 09:21 AM EST --
Clear Fork Divide, Colorado
What's at Stake?
The wild peaks and deep forests of western Colorado—areas like the Clear Fork Divide region–helped inspire the country's first Wilderness . . . more
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October 04, 2006 04:02 PM EDT --
Leaving only footprints where night stays light
By Diane Daniel, Globe Correspondent
Boston Globe - October 1, 2006
Reprinted with permission from Diane Daniel
WHO: Heather and Steve . . . more
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August 15, 2006 04:49 PM EDT --
North Slope Oil Development: Air and Water Pollution, Spills, and Sprawl
Three decades of oil industry public relations have drilled away at one familiar theme that belies the reality on the ground: that . . . more
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