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...move as low as smoke over the treetops at Lolo Pass. The ground is white. The day is June 10. It has been snowing for the past four days in the Bitterroot Mountains. Wayne Fairchild is getting worried about our trek over the Lolo Trail--95 miles from Lolo, Mont., to Weippe in Idaho, across some of the most rugged country in the West. Lewis and Clark were nearly defeated 200 years ago by snowstorms on the Lolo--the name apparently comes from Lawrence, a French-Canadian trapper killed by a grizzly in the area in the 1850s. Today Fairchild...
...Preserving Food on the Trail," a recent cover story in We Proceeded On, the journal for serious Lewis and Clark obsessives. Holland and some of her L&C buddies set up a big cookout for me. I was to be the first person ever to fly to Bozeman, Mont., expressly for a meal...
...Grand Hotels: La Tour Rose, for the rooms decorated by the city's best silk manufacturers, 22 rue du Boef; the Villa Florentine, in a former convent, 25 Montée StBarthélémy. is an appealing jumble of small shops and restaurants tucked into Italianate pink and ocher buildings that bear witness to Lyons' 15th and 16th century wealth. The first stock market in France opened here in 1506, and with royal patronage the city became the silk-weaving capital of Europe. The cobbled streets of Vieux Lyons are connected by closed alleys called traboules. Originally just...
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...load of tires on one of the trucks, reached 980?C, causing part of the tunnel roof to collapse. More than 1.2 million truckers, as well as millions of holidaymakers, use the Gotthard Tunnel every year. The accident is likely to stiffen opposition to the reopening of the Mont Blanc Tunnel, closed in March 1999 after a truck fire killed 39. three held for training leftist guerrillas in Colombia. The British government started dismantling military installations in the province. ISRAEL Troop Withdrawal Under strong diplomatic pressure, Israel agreed to withdraw from Bethlehem and Beit Jala, two West Bank towns it occupied...