Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned out an eight-page special section, wrapped around the previously printed front page, for its Tuesday-evening editions. Both Los Angeles papers, the Times and the Herald Examiner, moved up the publication of their Tuesday-afternoon editions and doubled the usual size of their pressruns. Denver's Rocky Mountain News published its first extra since V-J day; all 67,000 copies sold...
Jackson should know, since he leads trips along one of the busiest routes in the country. Named after a U.S. Army ski troop that trained in Colorado during World War II, the Tenth Mountain Division Trail stretches 40 miles from Aspen toward Vail. Begun in 1982, the path winds past three high-altitude huts (the largest sleeps 20), with another six on the way if the U.S. Forest Service approves extending the course the full 79 miles to Vail. Stoves, cooking gear and mattresses are provided in the huts, but skiers must lug their own food and sleeping bags...
Skiers who insist on posher treatment could look up Leonard-Ayer Expeditions, which is based in an old mining town in Idaho called Stanley (pop. 99). Joe Leonard, 46, a bearded, Idaho-born mountain man, expects to guide about 150 people this season into the Sawtooth Mountains, twice as many as three years ago. Camps for the tours are a couple of huts and a yurt, a large, round, tentlike structure, set a day's journey apart at the edge of the Sawtooth wilderness...
...pack. Simmie Salembier, 42, a caterer from Los Angeles, turned out to have a canteen full of rum. Aching muscles told the day's history, and would retell it more insistently the next morning. Outside, stars snapped in the clear sky, just as they are supposed to do on mountain trips, and inside, feet wiggled in sleeping bags. For the Sawtooth voyagers, this day's chapter ended early...
...Rocky Mountain Blues--as in blue books--is a good way to describe the past weekend for the Harvard men's and women's ski teams, which competed at the Sugar Loaf Carnival...