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Watching for the backcountry eye

by Dave Pidgeon on January 18, 2010

Guns, national parks and the future debate about safety cameras in the backcountry.

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A Jarvis profile

by davepidgeon on July 20, 2009

He’s summitted Mount Rainier twice, worked to make western national parks carbon neutral by 2016 and nearly jeopardized his career by tangling with the Bush administration. He’s Jon Jarvis, President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the National Park Service. After reading the profile published Sunday in the Kansas City Star, I reflected on how refreshing it [...]

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Olympian-size challenge

by davepidgeon on December 3, 2008

I want the book.  That was my reaction after reading Erik Hansen’s all-too-short of a story about his attempt to cross the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, published in Outside. He was obviously under a word limit, which Hansen handled fabulously enough to entice me to ask for more. And if there was ever a writer [...]

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