I attended the ribbon cutting yesterday. Evidence here.

Go Blog scooped me on this one, so I figured I’d drill a bit deeper into this deal. The coolest part is that the mag is being acquired by Active Interest Media, headed by former Times Mirror executive Efrem “Skip”…

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An environmental group says since global warming’s gonna melt the signature attractions at Glacier National Park, it’ll have to be renamed. Clever, I know.

Over the guy who dropped dead at the feet of one of its guides in the scalding Utah desert last summer. Get this: It has since emerged that two of the group members were offered and accepted water from instructors…

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Hiking LA has a bunch of excellent ones posted. From the New York Times story on the fire: The fire made for dramatic images as towering flames devoured hillsides and brush in large pockets of the 4,200-acre park, a hilly…

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You’re taking too many park rangers’ jobs away.

So says the Other Tom at that other paper.

The other day I saw a post at GoBlog about all the dead bodies left frozen on Mount Everest, and today I read an update on the story of the guy who tried to prove he could go all day…

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Laura Bush and her entourage showed up in southern Utah the other day; word is they’ll be spending most of the week in the park. One guest – who only identified himself as “John” – said he and a friend…

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