A Walk in the Woods
From Norwich it is about a mile to the Connecticut River and a pleasant, unassuming 1930s bridge leading to the state of New Ham ...
Popular impressions to the contrary, relatively few victims of hypothermia die in extreme conditions, stumbling through blizzard ...
water. Even in summer, the North Sea is so perishingly cold that it can kill a person immersed in it in as little as thirty minu ...
it was a splendid morning, with mild but abundant sunshine and that invigorating, minty- clean air you get only in northern moun ...
quarter of a mile the sweater was wet through and hanging heavily on my arms and shoulders. To make things worse, I was wearing ...
Bill, who seemed serenely impervious to cold and of course had no idea that we were doing anything but proceeding along a high r ...
I did a quick calculation. Assuming $50 as the standard price, it would have cost the average thru-hiker somewhere between $6,00 ...
In Into the Mountains, Maggie Stier and Ron McAdow record how two University of New Hampshire students, Derek Tinkham and Jeremy ...
automobiles gleaming hotly in the sun. Beyond stands a scattered complex of buildings among which move crowds of people in short ...
Five years after the railway opened the old Tip-Top was succeeded by a much grander Summit House Hotel, and that was followed by ...
and their grounds slowly returned to forest. Once one could have seen perhaps twenty large hotels from the summit. Today there i ...
sleeping bag? I don't think so. All we take is cold food, water bottles, maybe one change of clothes. I figure we can get the lo ...
It takes a week to ten days for most people to cross this notorious expanse. Because we had two weeks, we had my wife drop us at ...
There didn't seem much point in trying to reason with him. When we reached the camp and he was putting up his tent I looked into ...
lotteries to decide who gets a permit. Maine in 1996 received 82,000 applications for just 1,500 permits. Over 12,000 out-of-sta ...
We ate a dinner of Slim Jims, raisins, and Snickers and retired to our tents to escape the endless assault of mosquitoes. As we ...
and pull himself to a standing position. The water was up to his chest. He clung to the log and heaved visibly with the effort o ...
were never sure how much we could prudently swallow without leaving ourselves short later on. Even fully stocked, we were short ...
struggled up on to the bank, and continued on into the woods without a backward glance, as if this were the most normal thing in ...
He seemed unusually, almost exaggeratedly, energized, and gave me an impetuous tickle from behind as he passed, which was out of ...
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