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Colorado

The sound of the American wilderness

by Dave Pidgeon on January 28, 2010

How natural and unnatural sounds impact the debate about whether America has true wilderness.

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America’s alpine kingdom

by Dave Pidgeon on January 26, 2010

Rocky Mountain National Park celebrates its birthday, and we celebrate with a link to an archaic film.

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Rocky Mountain majesty

by Dave Pidgeon on December 9, 2009

I … want … to … go … here … now What prompted this brief moment of national park revery is I found a YouTube video about Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. It’s embedded on a Web site that, frankly, I can’t figure what it’s about. Just a jumbled mass of images and text. [...]

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Blue Ridge memories and Rocky’s future

by Dave Pidgeon on November 30, 2009

The first post after the Thanksgiving vacation promises a Shenandoah trip report and highlights an article about what threatens Rocky Mountain National Park.

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Rock out in national parks

by Dave Pidgeon on November 14, 2009

Find out what parks are the best location for rock climbers.

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Farley delivers beautiful places

by davepidgeon on September 16, 2009

If you love national parks and haven’t signed up to watch Tony Farley’s fantastic Beautiful Places in HD podcast on iTunes, c’mon, hop to it. Farley’s camera creates digital images as close to human-eye perfection as I’ve ever seen, and each three- to five-minute podcast has such a serene ambiance, you’d gratefully fall asleep if [...]

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Giving Ohio a shout out

by davepidgeon on June 25, 2009

As tempting as it would be to update Compass Points with another item about Gov. Mark “Juan Peron” Sanford – and it is tempting after laughing all night reading those steamy middle-school-quality e-mails to his mistress in Argentina – I’m turning my focus back to actual wilderness trails.           Backpacker released [...]

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