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Technical support has been provided by the truckload: actually, seven 40-ft. trailers. To broadcast from 24 different sites, ABC will be using 25 color cameras, including five mobile units and four Electronic Sports Gatherers-minicam-eras with backpack power sources. The ESGs, never used for live broadcasting at an Olympics before, should give ABC the flexibility it believes is essential...
...pick-up chugged along, with the cab humping upward every third beat somewhat like a caterpillar crawl. It was the single dirtiest vehicle I had ever ridden in--when I retrieved my bright-red backpack out of the back at the end of my ride, it had turned brown, brown with black racing stripes. Come to find out the driver carried his organic fertilizer around back there, mostly cow manure, that is, with pig and chicken droppings thrown in as a kicker. But you couldn't ask for a more pleasant ride--Mt. Pisgah National Forest, hills and dales, glinting...
...Huntington, Ind., the company's Memcor division is the largest supplier of backpack Army radios: 84,000 last year. Memcor also installs radios in helicopters and planes...
Living off-campus in Oakland with his German shepherd and the coach of Cal's junior-varsity team, Muncie is happiest when he can disappear into the California wilderness on cross-country skis or with a backpack. "I really enjoy getting away," he says. "Out there, no one can hassle you." Last winter he spent four grueling days climbing 3,500 ft. up snowbound Rte. 120 into Yosemite National Park. The purpose: three days of skiing in pristine Tuolumne Meadows. "No one had set foot in that snow," he says...
...well-guarded Eldorado for backpackers is a onetime gold-panning area, California's Plumas-Eureka State Park. The 4,422-sq.-mi. park nestles in the northernmost Sierras at 4,000 ft. above sea level and 80 miles north of Lake Tahoe. Glacier-carved granite peaks rise above the timberline marked by noble stands of ponderosa, Jeffrey and sugar pine; Eureka and Madora lakes sparkle in the summer sun, which even in August has not melted the mountain snows. Jamison Creek, running fast and clear through the park, is alive with half-pound rainbow and brook trout. Campers looking...