A Walk in the Woods
as his footing went, and I turned to find him hugging a tree, feet skating, his expression bug-eyed and fearful. It was deeply u ...
"So what're we going to do?" he said. I sighed, unsure, then yanked the map out and examined it again. I looked from it to the l ...
weekend, they told us (I hadn't even realized it was a weekend), and knew the weather was likely to be bad, though not perhaps q ...
well be now, when at least it was pretty and calm. Who knew when another storm might blow in and really strand us? Jim had decid ...
block, and a couple of other indeterminate buildings scattered around a big, level, open area clearly intended for camper vans a ...
victim clinging to a square of floating wreckage on rough seas, or possibly someone who had been lifted unexpectedly into the sk ...
snow. The talk was all of the weather. There was no telling when we would get out of here. It was impossible not to feel trapped ...
I gave a shrug that was meant to look optimistic but was probably closer to indifferent. "We might," I said. "But what if we don ...
long swig, mopped his forehead, checked his hand for blood, and finally said, in a conversational tone: "How did you get around ...
long-suffering looks, and pushed on. Over a view or regard with admiration some passing marvel of nature, but mostly to him hiki ...
in the 1930s. It is the biggest dam in America east of the Mississippi and something of an attraction for people who like concre ...
Appalachians' north--south orientation. During the last ice age, as glaciers and ice sheets spread down from the Arctic, norther ...
Even more varied and underappreciated than the salamander is the freshwater mussel. Three hundred types of mussel, a third of th ...
horizon, is an experience not to be forgotten. But they are far more than just grassy curiosities. According to the writer Hiram ...
enthralling. The interior was dark and leaky, with a mud floor like chocolate pudding, a cramped and filthy sleeping platform, a ...
amplified patter of rain on synthetic material. Worst of all, you don't even stay dry; the waterproofs keep out the rain but mak ...
like chatting to your mother's friends in the supermarket, so I said: "Oh, yeah? YOU happy with it?" "Oh, yeah" was the deeply s ...
It was eight miles from Clingmans Dome to U.S. 441, the first paved road since Fontana Dam four days before. Gatlinburg lay fift ...
sometimes simultaneously." And so it was today. The same throngs of pear-shaped people in Reeboks wandered between food smells, ...
Katz needed bootlaces, so we went to an outfitter's, and while he was off in the footwear section I had an idle shuffle around. ...
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