Word: canyoneering
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...morning. Families can spend the heat of the afternoon enjoying one of several deluxe water parks or exploring the Palm Springs Desert Museum, famous for its exhibits on local Native American art and history. A more unexpected way to beat the heat is to hike in the spectacular Tahquitz Canyon, which was recently opened to the public for the first time in more than 30 years. Its terrain is striped with cooling waterfalls, and the many rock overhangs along its granite face provide often daylong shade. Or take the tram up Mount San Jacinto, where the air is usually brisk...
...builders who worked on it. Within hours of Edward Smart's 911 call, a Rachael alert--named after another Utah kidnapping victim--had been activated. By about 7:30 a.m., all Utah radio and TV stations had been given Elizabeth's description to broadcast. On Friday, nearby Emigration Canyon was cordoned off after one of the hundreds of volunteer searchers saw a man fitting the kidnapper's description--white, with dark hair and a pale top--and shots were reportedly heard. But police could find no one. Even the $250,000 reward (originally $10,000, but swelled by donations...
When it's time to call it a day, skip the overbearingly themed Ballantine's Movie Colony on Indian Canyon Drive and head to the neighboring town of Desert Hot Springs for a night at Hope Springs. Formerly a residential hotel, Hope Springs is a low-key and welcoming 10-room inn done over in an austere '50s style. Soak your tired feet in its flow-through system of three spring-fed mineral pools, and say hello to Hector, a wirehaired terrier rescued by manager Nancy Morgan from the surrounding desert. (The lobby fire pit, done over as a tile...
...column “Manual manipulation: a dying art,” for example, Krinsky bemoans the handjob’s disappearance from the love repertoire, a change that she claims essentially removes third base from the sexual infield—leaving couples to either jump the canyon to home plate or hunker down at second for the long haul...
...Sabur told TIME, "al-Qaeda opened fire on us with something big." In a mud-brick hut was hidden an antiaircraft gun or mortar. Munitions ripped through the cabin. Sabur took shrapnel in his leg. The convoy returned fire and called in air support. Three helicopters thundered up the canyon, blasting away at enemy positions. A few days later, another Afghan from the convoy showed a TIME reporter the truck, lying on its side in a ditch. "When we'd finished," he said, "all the Arabs were dead." So were three Afghans and one American. Army Chief Warrant Officer Stanley...