Lincoln City (Local Fisherman News)

February 28th, 2006

Sunset Landing & RV Park 4270 Siletz Hwy. Lincoln City, Oregon 97367. (541) 994-8880. Toll free 1-800-834-7430. We are located just south of Lincoln City on the beautiful Siletz River. We have great fishing for Chinook, Cutthroat trout and Sturgeon. more…

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‘I had to drink my own urine’ (South London Press)

February 28th, 2006

AN INJURED charity worker has told how he survived six days on a freezing mountain by drinking his own urine. Paul Beck, 33, from Denmark Hill, dislocated and fractured a hip after slipping on ice 5,000ft up the Picos de Europa range in northern Spain. more…

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Hiker travels light, fast on Pacific Crest (San Francisco Chronicle)

February 28th, 2006

Scott Williamson is no Moses. The man wouldn’t dream of hiking in or out of the mountains burdened by anything like a pair of stone tablets. He doesn’t believe in even carrying a tent, a flashlight or a water filter, for Pete’s sake. That doesn’t mean… more…

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A sail on a schooner in a storm: No frills, but fun of a sort (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

February 28th, 2006

It was, as they say, a dark and stormy night. In fact, it was four dark and stormy nights. In early October, on Penobscot Bay off the coast of Maine, the 82-foot schooner Nathaniel Bowditch pitched and yawed in a 52-m.p.h. gale. more…

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No mailing this one in (The Aspen Times)

February 28th, 2006

Winter travel between Aspen and Crested Butte wasn’t easy in the 1880s. It still isn’t for competitors in the Elk Mountains Grand Traverse, an annual backcountry ski race that follows mail routes that connected the mining towns more than a century… more…

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I SURVIVED 6 DAYS BY DRINKING MY URINE (Daily Record)

February 28th, 2006

A SERIOUSLY injured climber told yesterday how he survived for six days by drinking his own urine. Paul Beck fractured his hip in a 900ft plunge down a mountainside in Spain. more…

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Rescuers find injured walker after six freezing days (Daily Telegraph: UK News)

February 28th, 2006

A charity worker from London was recovering in hospital after lying injured for six days in the mountains of northern Spain. more…

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Klondike Derby teaches Scouts survival skills (Times-Reporter)

February 28th, 2006

ZOARVILLE – Bending over a map and a compass, youth from Boy Scout Troop 155 of Malvern looked over their course of action. Their day started bright and early with pancakes and sausage cooked over a stove, but there was much more that lay ahead. more…

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An author teaches children how to open their eyes in their own backyards. (Princeton Packet)

February 27th, 2006

Author Jane Kirkland’s idea of camping used to mean that she’d have to stay at the Holiday Inn Express instead of the Four Seasons. The Bucks County, Pa., native admits she was never quite at one with nature. more…

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Town gets no-go label (The Advocate)

February 27th, 2006

COUNCILLORS will meet tonight in a bid to resolve Latrobe’s free camping dilemma as tourists warn the town is already a no-go zone. more…

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