February 2009
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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
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After miles of the winding canyons and passes of the Gunnison Basin, you enter southern Colorado’s San Luis Valley. It’s vast and flat, a section of Kansas lifted to 8000 feet, ringed in snow-capped peaks. And hidden in the corner are 30 square miles of the tallest sand dunes in North America.
The terrain ranges: a 14,000-foot peak, an alpine lake, a mountain...
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The B.F. Look
After a summer spent patrolling the backcountry of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, my friend and her husband, whose hair and beard had been spared the blade for many a month, were walking the streets of Juneau during an Alaska Marine Highway stopover. A (very drunk) man walked out of a bar and up to Bill, grabbed Bill’s beard, and gave it a good tug. “You’re a...