Word: treks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once upon a time, students who wished to catch a cinematic screening at the Loews Fresh Pond Theaters faced a daunting trek. After dashing down the alley path from the T, avoiding vehicular death on Rindge Avenue, adventurers found themselves atop a mountain from which they could spy the neon movie sign glowing like a beacon in the distance. Only the bravest could carry on; the mission demanded they rappel down the gravely dirt mound and, finally, leap from the wall to get to their flicks...
...result, according to some first-years, was a good deal of confusion at Adams and a large number of people forced to trek back to Annenberg or eat at other River Houses...
...earth. Very few have done so, of course, because it's hard going--and because only in the past decade have travel companies offered would-be Arctic explorers the kind of expedition they could manage. The company that pioneered such trips, Northwest Passage, is planning its fifth trek to the geographic North Pole starting in early February with a six-day training session on Baffin Island. In April a party of eight to 15 will fly charter aircraft from Resolute Bay, Nunavut, to within 150 miles of the pole. Then, under a 24-hr. polar sun, in often subzero temperatures...
Helen agrees and says, "It is something special to get that far away from the world." A clinical-research nurse, she exercises regularly but had a rough time on the rugged, muddy 9-mile trek up to the base camp in the Machalilla National Park of coastal Ecuador. It was easier for Lee, a biophysicist who at 67 still bikes 30 miles round trip every day between their home in a Philadelphia suburb and his office at the University of Pennsylvania. For their nine days, not including airfare, they paid a little less than $1,600, which is partly...
...actually think it's really convenient. I wouldn't have made the trek to UHS," Elizabeth T. B. Murphy '03 said...