Word: salida
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Christopher Doll, SALIDA, CALIF...
Even those who crave a trip into the rustic beyond (like the very popular five-day Continental Divide tour offered by the Rocky Mountain Outdoor Center in Salida, Colo.) are treated to delicious meals cooked in a Dutch oven, tents and cots set up for them by support staff--and just about anything extra they're willing to pay for. "If someone wants a masseuse waiting at the next campsite in the middle of nowhere," says RMOC owner Ray Kitson, "or a certain kind of camp chair, we arrange...
...saying Kenneth Russell is an angel. The 16-year-old high school junior from Salida, Calif., is a C student with a filthy mouth who has been known to saunter into class on his own schedule. And, yes, as Russell readily admits, after a bout of name-calling with a white classmate last fall, he threw the first punch in a fistfight that left him battered and his adversary with five stitches over his left...
...charitable causes by a for-profit firm called Pallotta Teamworks. In the 1990s, Pallotta elevated the folksy fund-raising trend to a well-marketed mass movement with glossy brochures and inspirational videos. But that kind of approach is turning off do-gooders like Carol Peeples, 44, a teacher in Salida, Colo., who raised $2,500 for a Pallotta-run Avon Breast Cancer Walk last year. Peeples and other walkers received a coffee-table-book-size color catalog promoting various Pallotta causes, like a suicide-prevention walk in Washington; they were required to watch a "safety video" that some described...