Trail
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Newyork
America’s Trails Are a Wonder, and They Need Our Help
As dawn broke on a fall day in 2020 over the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, a crew of young men and women labored to fix a precarious footbridge below Wapama Falls — at 1,400 feet, one of the tallest waterfalls in the park. Several ...
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World
Hikers Rescued After Following Nonexistent Trail on Google Maps
A Canadian search-and-rescue group said it had conducted two missions recently after hikers “may have sought to follow” a nonexistent trail on Google Maps.
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US
Ready to Give Gravel Biking a Try? There’s No Time Like the Fall.
You know that feeling of riding a bike as a kid — the freedom to go (almost) anywhere, to explore, to ride with friends? Gravel biking is like that. With a penchant for riding on dirt or gravel roads and paths and piecing together out-of-the-way ...
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US
The Austere Beauty of Egypt’s Long-Distance Hiking Trails
Ben Hoffler has heard one sound more than any other during the past dozen years: that of footsteps — crunch, crunch, crunch — pressing into the sandy gravel that carpets the desert valleys of South Sinai, a seemingly endless landscape of granite ...