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Start the trail at the end of K St. in Georgetown, following the river’s humid but shady banks. Take an old rail bridge over the C&O canal and towpath (which, for the more adventurous, goes the 184.5 miles to John Brown’s stakeout, Harper’s Ferry W.Va.). After the DC/Maryland line, cut behind the backyards of suburban DC’s swankier ’hoods, and you’ll quickly find yourself at a Honda dealership smack dab in the middle of Bethesda...
...most terrible place on the whole river," a tempting endorsement for any adventurer. The soaring Gorges cliffs draw thousands of visitors a year to cruise the Yangtze. But many are underwhelmed by the sterile tourist-boat experience. We're hoping to find a more unspoiled view by hiking the towpath and tracking the trackers...
Without a boat to drag, the walk along the Qutang towpath only takes four hours. A sampan carries us to the north side of the Yangtze, where the path runs some 50 m above the late-summer waterline. About 1.5 m wide, it's paved with well fitting flagstones running westward through light brush. Only a few sections have crumbled since its completion in 1900, a sharp contrast to most roads in the area. Below us are traces of lower trails, narrow and treacherous paths used by workmen who needed to be closer to the river. Short, granite pillars line...
...manager of the New York Post. A week ago last Sunday, the couple left a restaurant in the Bucks County resort town of New Hope, Pa. It was 7:15 p.m., and they had not been drinking. Moments later, in a heavy downpour, Fischbein apparently mistook a poorly marked towpath for the restaurant parking-lot exit. His rented station wagon tumbled some 15 feet into the water-and mud-filled Delaware Canal, coming to rest upside down. When the car was discovered four hours later, Fischbein was still strapped behind the wheel, and Savitch, along with her pet Siberian husky...
...from the Supreme Court in November 1975, William O. Douglas, 78, attended the ceremonies dedicating to him the 20,200-acre Chesapeake and Ohio National Historical Park. The hundreds gathered in his honor needed no reminder that it was Douglas who spearheaded a campaign to save the 184-mile towpath along the C&O canal from becoming a highway-in 1954 he led conservationists on an eight-day hike from Georgetown to Cumberland, Md., to publicize the cause. At the dedication ceremonies, Douglas' wife Cathy unveiled a bust of her husband as six Supreme Court Justices, including Chief Justice...