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Some cross-country fanatics, in fact, refuse to accept the comforts of touring centers. For purists, there are challenges like the 35-mile, six-day trek across the ridge line of the Sierra in Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. It is an experience in mountaineering as well as skiing. The route rises 6,000 ft., almost straight up from the roadhead, to peaks of 13,000 ft. and more. One requirement: a small radio transmitter for avalanche protection. Other arcana may include polypropylene underwear, vapor-barrier booties and avalanche-probe ski poles. The reward of the trek is skier...
...spoke with several of his undergraduate teammates both in and out of professional football. What if the 49ers had lost last week? "I'm a bad prognosticator," admits Callahan. "I went all the way to Africa to pick Foreman over Ali in 1974, and I picked the canyon over Evel Knievel the same year. Even so, this seemed like a worthy gamble...
...early morning blizzard worries Commencement officials, but sunshine breaks through and the temperature climbs into the low 40s for the ceremony. Actualy, ceremonies, since seniors A-M are graduated on the University Hall side of the Yard canyon. Honorary degrees are awarded to Albert "Dapper" O'Neill, Ed McMahon, Fred Jones (founder of S&H Green Stamps), Jack Webb ("crimefighter and character actor, he has contributed to the growth of UHF television"), and Timothy Leary ("ahead of his time, he has served the Supreme Court well this winter...
...Pierce set up the first Christmas tree inside the White House, and in 1923 President Calvin Coolidge instituted the custom of lighting a National Christmas Tree on the White House grounds. Three years later the U.S. Department of the Interior named the giant General Grant Sequoia Park in Kings Canyon National Park, Calif., the nation's official Christmas tree...
...canyon, the red-and-white chopper hovers into view. Right ahead of it, seven majestic mustangs pirouette across a low ridge, chest-high in the sage, kicking contrails of acrid dust in their wake. It is their last moment of freedom. An airborne chase that began miles and ridges ago is about...