Word: backpackers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well-guarded Eldorado for backpackers is a onetime gold-panning area, California's Plumas-Eureka State Park. The 4,422-sq.-mi. park nestles in the northernmost Sierras at 4,000 ft. above sea level and 80 miles north of Lake Tahoe. Glacier-carved granite peaks rise above the timberline marked by noble stands of ponderosa, Jeffrey and sugar pine; Eureka and Madora lakes sparkle in the summer sun, which even in August has not melted the mountain snows. Jamison Creek, running fast and clear through the park, is alive with half-pound rainbow and brook trout. Campers looking...
...went back over across the Bay Bridge to Barb's place. She gave me a check, and said I could only cash it if I would talk to Ray. I went out and got the money while she called him. When I came back to pick up my backpack, Ray was waiting. That's when we parted company...
...Indians, unlike the people of mixed blood who lived in the town. As they entered, the men took off their traditional woolen caps and held them timidly in their thick-fingered, beaten hands. The women entered behind their husbands, a number of them carrying babies in a type of backpack improvised from a bright-banded, carefully-woven cloth. Soon 25 or 30 people were sitting on the hard wooden benches of the church, silently gazing at the two candles that stood unkindled on the small platform at the head of the rectangular church...
Today the company has offices in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., plants in the U.S. and Canada and 350 employees. It also has two other profitable lines: the $12 to $20 Backpack baby carrier and the $40 Playcrib combination crib and table that folds up like a suitcase. Last week the company expanded with the introduction of a larger folding stroller and the acquisition of the juvenile lamp division of Universal Lamp...
...view would have been splendid even through a car window, but it was far more satisfying because of the struggle up the mountain. In an electric-toothbrush civilization, it's nice to know that your muscles still work. When you sit down to rest and look at your backpack, you realize that everything you need for survival is right there. In the last few years, of course, some of the hardiness has been extracted even from backpacking. The awkward canvas knapsack has given way to nylon and aluminum contraptions. Miniature propane stoves and freeze-dried foods-from stroganoff...