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Love the outdoors but hate to sleep there? For camping-wary adventurers, hut hiking allows you to ditch the bulky sleeping bag and clunky camp stoves. Accommodations can range from simple yurts to posh lodges, but even the most rustic have cozy beds. Many also serve great food, making the wilderness seem a little less wild. --By Lisa McLaughlin...
Colorado The 10th Mountain Division Hut Association manages a system of 29 comfortable backcountry huts in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. The camps are connected by 350 miles of suggested routes for hiking, mountain biking and cross-country skiing...
Canada At the Alpine Club of Canada, huts range from remote bivvy shelters at the base of snowcapped mountains to cozy log cabins like the Elizabeth Parker Hut, above, in Yoho National Park. The hut has a well-equipped kitchen and can sleep...
...life, committed an act of family betrayal that Seth cannot fully understand, but in the final version forgives. After all, the man was family, and thus familiarly human. "Behind every door," writes Seth toward the end of Two Lives, "on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village on this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found." Seth found them in an unexpected place: his own family...
...Going through his wife's possessions in the dark months that followed, Connolly came across the diaries she'd kept in 1990 during their year living in a grass hut making Black Harvest (1992), the third in their trilogy set in the wildly beautiful Highlands of Papua New Guinea. A planned book on their experience was never finished, waylaid by other projects, such as their celebrated 1996 take on the overheated jostling during the mayoral contest in an inner-Sydney city council, Rats in the Ranks. So when Connolly took up the book again 12 years...