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If I don’t return tell the police to track him down via Two-Heel Drive.

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Worried about global warming vis-à-vis our polar friends?
They’ll simply find a new source of food if they can’t get to the seals.

source - flickr

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My call to cast John Hodgeman as Bryson, and Jack Black as Katz fell on deaf ears.
Robert Redford, 71-years-young, will play Bill Bryson in the film adaptation of the funniest hiking book of all time.

A Walk in the Woods
(via Cutter’s blog)

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In the cold Canadian winter, the only hiking I can do is on-line. I’m dreaming of warmer weather.
On one of my favourite hiking sites (out of Australia), Frank posted this advice:

What do you need to prepare for a multiday hike so you have a great time and enjoy the outdoors? We have put together […]

Sarah of Freezer Bag Cooking pointed us to this brilliant cartoon from the past:

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: David Horsey
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From everything I’ve heard and seen over the past 7-years, George Bush has been the worst President ever in terms of protecting the environment. National Parks, in particular, have been near lowest priority for his administration.
Just about every second day I get more bad news from the National Parks Traveler blog.
Now the White […]

Jeffrey Hunter names a cartoon by Pat Bagley in The Salt Lake Tribune.
The thumbnail is a “teaser”. Click through to see the entire funny-because-it’s-true comic.
Political Cartoon of the Year! - American Hiking Association
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Ambition - despair.com
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Former SNL funnyman Chris Elliot has just published a new book called “Into Hot Air: Mounting Mount Everest,” a send-up of Outside Editor at Large Jon Krakauer’s famous work of nearly the same name. The book imagines it wasn’t Hillary and Tenzing Norgay who first bagged Everest’s summit, but Elliot’s adventurous and stone-crazy Great Uncle […]

If this happened to you, are you prepared? Take the quiz: How to survive a polar bear attack.
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