Amazing what a little rain can do
Contra Costa Times - Going without electricity is fun when we go camping, but most of us find it a tad inconvenient when we are back home, trying to get on with our normal lives. Our power went out at about 5 a.m. the other day, and it stayed off until about 9 that night
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WSU Men’s Basketball | Marquee matchup for Cougars
Seattle Times - LOS ANGELES — The Washington State Cougars can still poke fun at themselves, even if everyone else learned long ago to take them seriously. Told there were 50 or so UCLA students already camping out near the steps outside of Pauley Pavilion in
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Lost lives, love
San Bernardino County Sun - Cody, who graduated from the school in June and had been working in his father’s construction business, played guitar and was also partial to rock climbing, fishing, camping and classic cars. He especially enjoyed hot-rodding with his father
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Infestation frustration: Hemlock pest spreads
Lucianne.com - Lonnie Maize, manager of the Deep Creek trail crew in the Smokies and the man credited with first spotting the hemlock woolly adelgid in the national park in 2002, was camping in the Station Camp area of the 116,000-acre Big South Fork park just
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Escapes from L.A.: Joshua Tree National Park
Chicago Tribune - A young man and woman from Naples, Fla., did confide that they had tried booking passage to Santa Cruz for an overnight camping trip on New Year’s Eve. “We thought if there was one place that would be safe from Y2K, it would be out there,” the man
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Park pain: Nature lovers fear losing treasured spots to budget cuts
San Francisco Gate - The governor’s proposed budget includes money for rangers to patrol the closed parks for illegal fires or camping. It’s doubtful rangers would try to prevent people from hiking through on existing trails, but Coleman said a lot of the details are
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Best of the Sportshow
Kansas City Star - I thought, ‘There has to be a better way.’ So I began experimenting at home with different recipes that I could use on camping, hiking and float trips.” He started by making Johnny Cakes from cornbread mix — pancakes that could be used as
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Suspect in hiker’s death is nomad, ‘weird character’
Raleigh News & Observer - A deputy found Hilton parked in some woods on the side of the road with camping gear sprawled out on the grass. On the video, Hilton is animated and chatty. He said he got lost while traveling from Lawrenceville to Cohutta, which is near the Tennessee
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Zipping along in Quebec’s Laurentians
Chicago Tribune - You have to bring your own linens, and there’s a two-night minimum stay, but this is camping in high style. Yurts feature electric lights, propane stove and an electric fridge to keep the brews cold. They cost about $63 a night before taxes, but
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