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...haven't been able to tall your roommates into joining you out on the tundra and would like company, both the Sierra Club and the Appalachian Mountain Club run cross-country trips of varying degrees of difficulty...
...Environmental Protection Act. Would nationalization of the coal industry be a solution? Caudill doubts it. He distrusts Government planners almost as much as coal's entrepreneurs. How about more leaders like Historian Ken Hechler, who, as Congressman from West Virginia's Fourth District, became "an Appalachian legislator for whom coal held no terrors"? Possibly. But Caudill sees few candidates in sight...
National Treasure. The battle over the New River began 14 years ago when A.E.P.'s subsidiary, Appalachian Power Co., obtained a license from the Federal Power Commission to build two dams at Independence and Galax, Va., for a "pumped-storage" project in which water run through turbines in the upper dam would be retained in the reservoir formed by the lower dam and then pumped back. The objective of the so-called Blue Ridge Project was to increase Appalachian's already enormous generating capacity by a significant 10%, providing more peak-load power for customers in Ohio...
...dams would also have destroyed a national treasure-geologists believe that the river was formed at least 100 million years ago and is perhaps older than the Nile. Certainly the New was already flowing when the movement of the continental plates thrust up the Appalachian Mountains, which are no youngsters as mountains go. While most Eastern rivers flow south and east and empty into the Atlantic, the New meanders north, cuts through the mountains and empties into the Ohio and Mississippi drainages. For centuries, in fact, it served as a highway for early Americans seeking to travel from East...
...daily grind itself can be grueling: over snow-covered Rocky Mountain passes, through dusty Kansas cornfields and up testing Appalachian ascents. Yet only 5% of the 4,300 people who have hit the trail since it opened May 14 have dropped out before finishing at least one of the designated 900-mile segments. Last week the first groups of cyclists going coast-to-coast passed each other at Pueblo, Colo...