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National Parks: My Love Affair With Mt. Rainier

A love affair with the mountain that has lasted my lifetime.

41 comments    hiking mountain climbing
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Names of Indoor Rock Climbing Holds and How to Use Different Types

Indoor rock climbing holds come in all shapes and sizes. Learning climbing hold names and types is essential to improving your climbing.

2 comments    climbing rock climbing cracks
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10 Famous Mountains In Europe

Mountains are beautiful creation of nature. Most of the highest mountains are situated in the famous and mighty Himalayan range. Along side Himalayas, is the Karakoram range and other ranges having many peaks rising up to 8000 metres. Surely that...

14 comments    europe mountains places
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Top Ten Places to Visit in Japan

Mount Fuji. Japan’s highest mountain (3776 meters, 12,377’) is unquestionably the country’s most iconic natural landmark. Photographed in all seasons from all angles, its near perfect cone is climbed by one quarter million people yearly,...

87 comments    japan tokyo kyoto
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The Longest Night: Stranded on Mt. Marcy

Date: December 13, 1999. Place: Mt. Marcy, Adirondack Park, N.Y. Description: Adirondack Park in New York is massive. It is larger than Yellowstone, Glacier, Everglades, and Grand Canyon parks COMBINED. At roughly 6 million acres, it is the largest...

27 comments    hiking climbing epic
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Autumn In New Paltz, New York

Several years ago when first I transferred from Plattsburgh to New Paltz, New York, I didn’t know what to expect. My emotions were an equal mix of excitement and fear as I began a new chapter in my life. Having arrived in New Paltz, I was to...

141 comments    travel recreation new york
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Social Climbing for Klutzes (like me)

Whether it's India's formal caste system or prestige based on job title, people are not created equal -- at least not socially equal. Ever since ancient times, when primitive man looked over and saw his neighbor had a bigger cave, a bigger club,...

43 comments    money self-improvement status
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Vienna Hills - The Fascinating Mountains Around Vienna

Vienna offers its visitors more than urban culture and imperial heritage of Habsburg vintage. The mountains near Vienna give plenty of opportunities for various outdoors activities such as hiking, skiing and rock climbing. Citizen and visitors alike are able to enjoy both, urban life and easy access to the fascinating nature around Vienna.

8 comments    rock climbing vienna schneeberg
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Against All Odds : Erik Weihenmayer, The Man Who Climb the Seven Summits of the World

Maybe you have heard of Erik Weihenmayer already, a blind man starting at the age 13, and is the first blind man to climb the highest mountains in the world -- the so called seven summits of the world, the Mt....

5 comments    disability blind man
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Edible Ferns, Nuts, and Grasses

Learning the basics of which leaves, grasses, and nuts native to America are edible, could save your life in an emergency. You'd be surprised to learn which every day plants in your own backyard or neighborhood can be eaten.

20 comments    grass ferns food source
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