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Backpacking Photo

Make Home while Backpacking

Arctic blasts of wind slam us as a nuclear sun reflects off the snow to create an intense solar oven: At 12,000 feet in California’s High Sierra in mid-April, w...
The Right Stuff: Alpine Running

The Right Stuff: Alpine Running

When I first moved from the mild, mossy forests of Seattle to a tiny town nestled at 7,200 feet in western Colorado’s Elk Mountains, my new environs required so...