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...National Park, where they learn that 100 hardy souls are threatening this season to assault the 20,320-ft. McKinley. The travelers are not so inclimbed, preferring instead to discover their atavistic selves by hiking for a day into the bush, or flying across the icy, prehistoric wilderness to northernmost Barrow. Soon, they will pick up their camper at Fairbanks and take the long road back across the country...
...Boundary Waters canoe area in northern Minnesota, along the Canadian border, is an unspoiled wilderness of lakes, rivers and streams where nothing can be heard but the swish of canoe paddles and the plaintive call of the loon. The Black Mesa, off the old Santa Fe Trail in northernmost Oklahoma, is totally undeveloped, with "self-sufficient" camping only; from its highest point 4,978 ft. above sea level, there is a view of Colorado, New Mexico and Texas...
...well-guarded Eldorado for backpackers is a onetime gold-panning area, California's Plumas-Eureka State Park. The 4,422-sq.-mi. park nestles in the northernmost Sierras at 4,000 ft. above sea level and 80 miles north of Lake Tahoe. Glacier-carved granite peaks rise above the timberline marked by noble stands of ponderosa, Jeffrey and sugar pine; Eureka and Madora lakes sparkle in the summer sun, which even in August has not melted the mountain snows. Jamison Creek, running fast and clear through the park, is alive with half-pound rainbow and brook trout. Campers looking...
...government's losses thus far dramatically convey the totality of the military collapse. In the five northernmost provinces constituting Military Region I, the government a month ago had 152,000 troops. By last week 100,000 of them had been put out of service by the Communists. Most simply fled, joining the rush of civilian refugees that streamed desperately southward. In Military Region II, the twelve provinces of central South Viet Nam, the losses were equally staggering. One of the best infantry divisions, the 23rd, was completely annihilated in the battle for Ban Me Thuot, with no more than...
Thieu's obsessive reclusiveness has cost his country dearly in recent weeks. Apparently, after consulting only two close aides, he summarily ordered ARVN to abandon three provinces in the Central Highlands and the northernmost province of Quang Tri. Most Pentagon analysts acknowledge that on paper Thieu's strategy may have been sound: by shrinking his lines of defense, he should have, theoretically, made it easier to protect the most important areas of the country. But the same analysts roundly condemn Thieu's execution of that strategy. A "retrograde" maneuver ? as the experts euphemistically term such a withdrawal ? requires...