Word: hiked
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...summer, a solo hike to the summit, though permitted, is impossible because of the number of other people. Crowds thin out significantly during winter, when severe weather locks the mountain in ice and snow, but solo-hiking is illegal. Baxter State Park winter regulations ban parties of fewer than four people from camping or climbing anywhere above the treeline. However, despite the rules, groups of one, two or three campers often attempt the climb. Last winter, rangers apprehended a pair of climbers; two weekends ago they caught Eugene B. (Gus) Yates...
Yates continued to hike that night, by the light of a full moon, until he reached the trailhead where he set up camp. The next day involved most of the climb, 3000-3500 feet up the A-ball slide--an old and steep rock slide. This is where Yates "got the mountaineering aspects I was after. There was a lot of delicate crampon work under variable snow conditions...
...began the descent from the summit, Yates decided to leave the trail and bushwhack the rest of the way down, mindful of the plane and the ranger he had run into two days before. He continued to hike into the night, hoping to avoid rangers, get out of the park and station himself near the road for the trip back to Cambridge the next day. Unfortunately, he did not go far enough. Although he was outside the park boundaries, the rangers, who had been on his trail for two days, tracked him down early the next morning...
...settlements within realistic bounds. The concordat would do little to curb the union tactic that galls Britons most: secondary picketing. This is what the country's 80,000 striking truck drivers used to shut down factories all over the country while they negotiated their guideline-busting 21% pay hike last month. Though a recent poll showed that 89% of the public (including 86% of trade union members) wanted this practice outlawed, the pact merely calls on the T.U.C. to control...
...slalom was a disappointment, however, as Fajtova took a "hike" after missing a gate; and the rest of the skiers either fell or were disqualified. This is the event that usually makes up for the inexperienced cross-country racers, who finished a combined eighth with freshman Missy Holbrook coming in as the first Crimson finisher...