SCOTT HUNTER is retiring as fire chief in Bedford at the end of March. To the surprise of probably no one who knows him, though, his idea of taking it easy involves hiking more than 2,190 miles from ...

“Sugar and Beach (mountains) are open. They’ve got snow. We need people to come up here.” On Grandfather Mountain, hiking trails are open, and visitors would be pressed to find remnants of Helene. And ...

Threatened by global warming, winter sports appear to be at odds with the sobriety vital to transition. So, what sense does it make to start your offspring on these leisure activities?

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He was a loving and devoted husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather ... When in Maine, friends introduced them to the joys of mountain hiking, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing ...

Parks and hiking trails in Catawba ... exceed 75 miles and include familiar peaks such as Mount Mitchell, Grandfather Mountain, Table Rock, Hawksbill and the Brushy Mountain range,” McCauley ...

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As an archaeologist enamored with mountain ... grandfather closed the building," Hussain said, "the rooms remained under lock and key for almost half a century." The following day while hiking ...

M y wife — as usual — understood the situation before I did. The night before, Monday, Jan. 6, we’d both been awoken by the ...

After Bolan Mountain Lookout burned down, the U.S. Forest Service formed an alliance with a trails group to rebuild a popular ...

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