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• Late Season Subalpine Meadow and Creek

  
  G Dan Mitchell Photography — Authority: 131
  Late Season Subalpine Meadow and Creek. Near Evelyn Lake, Yosemite National Park, California. September 9, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. A dry creekbed meanders through a boulder-filled golden late-season Sierra Nevada meadow at sunset near Evelyn Lake, Yosemite National Park, ...
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• Brookfield Zoo bears to get new digs

  
  Chicago Breaking News — Authority: 164
  Their new home could make an episode of "MTV Cribs" -- a $27 million estate with spacious outdoor yards, dens with skylights and a 15-foot waterfall spilling into a temperature-controlled pool. Except the inhabitants are not typical celebrities: They can weigh around 800 pounds, they enjoy foraging for food in the ...
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• December…

  
  this fragile tent — Authority: 424
  Winter can be cruelThe darkness cover us, and cold winds close us off from one anotherDecember comes, and the trees are bareThe hillsides become an impassable sponge, soaking up the rain that never seems to be far awayWhere once a thousand bluebells blazed, it is now almost impossible to believe that anything can ever ...
  16 hours ago

• Joel Meyerowitz at The Strand

  
  Exposures — Authority: 119
  Central Park, Hallett Nature Sanctuary, winter. Courtesy Joel Meyerowitz/Edwynn Houk Gallery Join master photographer Joel Meyerowitz for a talk and book signing at The Strand Book Store on the occasion of the publication of Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks . This compelling ...
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• Muruch’s Best of the Decade: Books

  
  Muruch — Authority: 129
  In addition to my usual year end lists , I’m also doing decade lists . Following are my favorite books that were released between 2000-2009. It turns out my two favorite books of the early aughts – Douglas Copeland’s Girlfriend in a Coma and Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity – were released in the ...
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• Gift Idea: “Alone in the Wilderness” DVD

  
  UsedWigs - Quality Workday Distractions — Authority: 423
  Remember the "Into The Wild" movie where that cute kid with great hair left civilization to be one with the land? Well, Dick Proenneke also did that but he knew how not to die. Proenneke, a retired mechanic and carpenter, rules in so many ways it will make your head spin: "Dick Proenneke retired at age 50 in 1967 ...
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• Andrew Sullivan’s exit, stage right

  
  The Reid Report — Authority: 507
  From the Joy Behar Show (what a fabulous name she has…) Andrew Sullivan explains why he’s done with the right, and will now leave the conservative “movement” to the loons (like Glenn “ Sweater Bomb ” Beck,) who have taken it over: Embedded video from CNN Video Read Sullivan’s reasoning in his own ...
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• Sunset Light, Lower Face of Fletcher Peak

  
  G Dan Mitchell Photography — Authority: 131
  Sunset Light, Lower Face of Fletcher Peak. Yosemite National Park, California. September 9, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved. Sunset light on the lower face of Fletcher Peak near the Vogelsang High Sierra Camp, Yosemite National Park, California. Fletcher Lake, the location of the ...
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• Minorca Opencast Protest Group

  
  Earth First! Action Reports - Direct action - no leaders - confront, stop & reverse the destruction of the earth — Authority: 131
  The Minorca Opencast Protest Group has been formed to oppose plans already submitted by UK Coal plc for an Opencast Coal Mine between Measham and Swepstone in Leicestershire, England. The application was submitted in July 2009, but has yet to be decided on by Leicestershire County Council (as at 7/12/09). read more
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• Myriad possibilities - today on PalatePress.com

  
  winehiker witiculture — Authority: 107
  Image courtesy of Mapsof.net The term sense of place has often been used to describe a wine’s origins, those elements of a wine that can distinguish its taste from the taste of wines produced elsewhere. It is said by many that one can taste the difference between wines produced in geographically disperse ...
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• Speaking out to safeguard America’s Redrock Wilderness

  
  Mother Earthbeats — Authority: 104
  We have allowed too much land to be exploited. It is time to wake up and take responsibility for the lands in which we live. Life on this planet is already in danger of passing into a critical zone, and we are leaving our children a legacy in which they cannot maintain a viable future. Is this really how we give ...
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• Snow way! Sway!

  
  Cheshire Cat Photo Blog (... said the Cat: 'we're all mad here....') — Authority: 129
  A rare “dusting” of snow fell in the Bay Area this morning, down to a level of about 350 feet of elevation. There was about a millimeter of snow in my backyard this morning, at 465 feet, and snow on our (colder) windshields. The snow was about as low as I remember seeing it at any time during our ...
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• Pharaoh Lake Wilderness: The Battle of Crane Pond Road

  
  Adirondack Almanack — Authority: 478
  Two decades ago, some Adirondackers forced the state to back down from a decision to close Crane Pond Road inside the Pharaoh Lake Wilderness.A few weeks ago, I went to Crane Pond Road to take photos for a story that will run in the next issue of the Adirondack Explorer.The dirt lane became a cause celebre two decades ...
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• UK broadcaster says sorry for rat-eating episode (AP)

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  LONDON – British broadcaster ITV has apologized after two contestants on a reality TV show skinned, cooked and ate a rat during filming. Chef Gino DAcampo and actor Stuart Manning have been charged with animal cruelty after preparing and eating rat risotto on the wilderness show "Im a ...
  2 days ago

• Top 10 Items to have on a Day Hike

  
  The Smoky Mountain Hiking Blog — Authority: 475
  Below is my list of the top ten things you should keep in your backpack on any day hike. Obviously you will need to make changes to your overall list based on weather conditions, season, terrain and length of trip, but generally speaking, these are the items I consider to be the most important to have on any day hike. ...
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• Sky-cradle

  
  HighCallingBlogs.com — Authority: 523
  One of my former patients used to tell me about a recurring dream that he had when he took a certain medication. The patient, who was a quadriplegic, not only was able-bodied in the dream, but he had a special ability. He could fly. He would describe in vivid detail the joy of soaring through blue skies and cavorting ...
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• Snowride with Lights at Wilderness

  
  folks from lincoln — Authority: 131
  I hooked up with Tammy, Gus and Glaucio for a fun ride through Wilderness tonight at 6 PM with Lights. We could still just make out tracks you guys made early Sunday afternoon. Rode the west side out past H-77 and to the old train tracks before we turned around. Lots of slip sliding and a few spills. We turned ...
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• All Aboard The Hypocrisy Reduction Train (Or is it the Limo?): At a Literal Crossroads, The Devil’s Choice Can Be Subtle

  
  Doug Fine: Author, Journalist, Adventurer, Goat-Herder — Authority: 99
  
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• Black Diamond Spot Headlamp Review (and Giveaway!)

  
  Running and Rambling — Authority: 124
  Before we get to today’s review and product giveaway, let’s get the previous contest out of the way … drum roll, please … RAY , shoot me an e-mail – you’ve won the $15 gift card to shop at Wilderness Running Company. Congrats! For everybody else, there will be an identical gift card contest at the ...
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• Walkabout

  
  Voice From Home — Authority: 130
  A walkabout is a rite of passage, in which the person will go out into the wilderness to discover his or her identity and purpose, and then return home. The walkabout, in this context, is a journey of healing and rediscovering the link between mind, body, and spirit. It is a journey that can help [...]
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