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Where will you view the solar eclipse?
Help us plot your destinations for the Aug. 21st event on our live map.
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West Obsessed: Forging a path through Alaska’s wilderness
High Country News discusses how the Frontier State might diversify its economy.
Posted inJune 26, 2017: Personal Pilgrimage
Could the lure of trails salvage Alaska’s economy?
A trail along the Trans-Alaska pipeline could be the start of a booming recreation economy.
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The Pacific Crest Trail’s shadow hikers
At the border, migrants and long-distance trekkers hike side by side but worlds apart.
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The making of a motorhead
Ex-skiers, ex-climbers, ex-hikers take on long-distance travel with motorbikes.
Posted inJune 26, 2017: Personal Pilgrimage
A network of trails that spans the country
The National Trails System, by the numbers.
Posted inJune 26, 2017: Personal Pilgrimage
Cartographers have been making bad maps for centuries
A new volume of maps shows the evolution of how we understand geography.
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Meet the woman behind Colorado’s highest trails
How trail designer Loretta McEllhiney protects mountains from people.
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Anticipating the next ‘Big One’ in Anchorage
Can an imminent disaster draw tourists to Alaska’s largest city?
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West Obsessed: Travel stories, far and wide
The staff of High Country News discuss the places that make us feel small.
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An expedition through the Edgelands
This landscape isn’t always beautiful — but that’s what makes it loveable.
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Backpacking the blast zone
At Mount St. Helens, they never say ‘recovery.’
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Cowboys with surfboards
How Hanalei, Hawaii, reflects small Western towns.
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Go North, young woman
In a place no one can see you, you can see yourself more clearly.
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Growing up in timber country
A writer returns to the old-growth forest of her youth.
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Raptors in flight
Enduring relationships begin with encounters.
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The Yaak Valley’s ‘Dirty Shame’
In the infamous Montana saloon, a lesson about home in harsh places.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
Together we pause
Sometimes we need to stop — to think about the ways we wreak havoc in the world.
Posted inMarch 6, 2017: Uncomfortable Corners
Wait — this land is my land?
A Southerner revels in the access of Western federal lands.