Word: canyoning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PHYLLIS CHRISTY CAME ALL THE way from Ipswich, South Dakota, to experience the Grand Canyon firsthand. She couldn't wait to peer into its dizzying, mile-deep abyss to take in the multihued walls and, far below, the roaring waters of the Colorado River. Aware of the jostling horde of tourists on the overcrowded South Rim of the canyon, she traveled to the less popular main overlook at the North Rim. But while she stood there, her ears were assaulted by the drone of two sightseeing Cessnas and a Twin Otter, plus the clatter of four helicopters--all of which...
...Grand Canyon National Park, the crown jewel of America's park system, is being overrun. And like many other underfunded and deteriorating national parks, it is ill prepared for the invasion. Summer has barely begun, and cars and campers are already queuing up in lines nearly a mile long at the entrance gates. The wait for dinner tables at park restaurants is two hours, and families without advance reservations are being turned away from campgrounds that have been booked for weeks...
DIED. ED LANGE, 75, photographer-nudist; in Los Angeles. Lange regularly contributed to the pages of Vogue and Life, but his true passion was the "clothing-optional" movement. He began publishing pronudist screeds in 1961 and in 1967 opened the Elysium Institute in L.A.'s laid-back Topanga Canyon. Daring in its day, the in-the-raw retreat is now such a community fixture that Lange was named citizen of the year by the local chamber of commerce...
...time there, he lived with Michael Fortier, another Army buddy; although fbi agents have questioned him, they say Fortier is not John Doe No. 2. But Kingman residents mostly express surprise that a man so unobtrusive should now be so notorious. Bob Ragin, the owner of the Canyon West Mobile & RV Park, where McVeigh lived in a blue-and-white 40-ft. trailer for four months in 1993, recalls feeling sorry for McVeigh. He seemed to have few friends, says Ragin. "He struck me as someone just out of the service who was trying to figure out what...
Brentwood's Kenter Canyon is a case in point. In contrast to contributing the $78,000 last year to the booster club for additional staff, parents gave only $5,000 to the PTA, which can't subsidize salaries and must turn over 20% of its revenues to a citywide fund for disadvantaged students. "Some parents become very hostile about how hard we work, and then have to turn over a chunk of it downtown," says PTA president Krieger...