Word: glaciered
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...moratorium on the acquisition of more national parkland, despite the fact that parks are now being used by more people than ever. In 1970 more than 172 million visited the country's national recreation areas; last year at least 300 million toured places like Yosemite, Yellowstone and Glacier. He has also invited private concessionaires to take over many more park functions, such as handling tenting and trailer reservations, running information booths and selling food, though the quality and cost of services now being provided by concessionaires have been the subject of three separate congressional investigations...
...creeping across the valley behind the slowest trailer. They forsake the beaches of Malibu and Carmel, the glamor of San Francisco and Bel Air. They leave behind the concession stands, theaters, and baseball diamonds and head for the mountains. They seek Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon--for the unmatched, glacier-carved grandeur of John Muir's "Range of Light...
...backpacker, the High Sierra is a state of mind. Cleanswept, devoid of trees, the region contains the range's highest peaks. It would almost seem barren were it not for the glacier basins with their high tundra meadows, tiny wildflowers, deep blue lakes, and foaming cascades...
...Yosemite Valley concessioniers. To the east, boyscouts and campfire girls pound dusty, mile-wide paths to the toilet-equipped camps beneath Mt. Whitney. But in the interior, the quiet is enveloping. A hiker of the trail may see no one for days, and those who visit the glacier lakes speak in whispers...
Visitors soon discovered that the smooth expanse of soft rock carved and polished by the glacier could easily be inscribed with personal data, and within no time there was a 300-ft.-long sweep of modern hieroglyphics. Last summer the first of the four-letter words appeared, to be followed by such a flood of pornographic graffiti that the better Boy Scout leaders struck Box Canyon off their lists of educational outings...