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...ARCTIC GETAWAY...
...finally successful journey to the North Pole 90 years ago, there have been dreamers who saw themselves skiing to the top of the earth. Very few have done so, of course, because it's hard going--and because only in the past decade have travel companies offered would-be Arctic explorers the kind of expedition they could manage. The company that pioneered such trips, Northwest Passage, is planning its fifth trek to the geographic North Pole starting in early February with a six-day training session on Baffin Island. In April a party of eight to 15 will fly charter...
Having spent 25 years in the Arctic performingfield work, Hoffman is a world expert on Canadiangeology, according to McElroy...
...problem is that most of Colorado's biggest mountains don't have well-defined trails to the top. So hikers scramble up the slopes any way they can, disrupting the natural drainage systems and trampling the fragile ecosystem--which includes tundra rarely seen in such abundance outside the Arctic. Where once there were rock jasmine and alpine forget-me-nots, there are now deep gullies, muddy lagoons and widespread erosion. "We are loving the Fourteeners to death," laments former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm, who has scaled 49 of them...
LIGHT GREEN = kiwi, mint, arctic, willow, water, blade...