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Barbara, a single mother in her 30s who looks as if tiredness is a permanent condition, slogs up the four-mile trail from a roadhead at Texas Falls. She carries a big, scruffy backpack and a nursing baby. A couple of other kids skip ahead. She comes to Gatherings because "I can feel safe for a few days." Safe from what? She doesn't say, and it doesn't seem necessary...
...touring centers. For purists, there are challenges like the 35-mile, six-day trek across the ridge line of the Sierra in Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. It is an experience in mountaineering as well as skiing. The route rises 6,000 ft., almost straight up from the roadhead, to peaks of 13,000 ft. and more. One requirement: a small radio transmitter for avalanche protection. Other arcana may include polypropylene underwear, vapor-barrier booties and avalanche-probe ski poles. The reward of the trek is skier's cocaine: unmarred 1,500-ft. alpine slopes. Experts claim...
...unmixed with satisfaction the progressive weakening of the forces which his enemy is able to put into the field . . . Perched on the crumbling parapet of an ill-drained butt [a dugout for grouse-shooters], he cannot but contemplate with sardonic eye the scanty and dilapidated motor transport assembling at roadhead in the glen below him. The sun . . . no longer flashes from the coachwork of immaculate limousines backing and filling on the turf . . . The escort of dogs is more imperfectly disciplined. The unit has lost most of its auxiliaries-the pony men, the bearers of cameras and mackintoshes and flasks...
...Malaria, cholera, the heat and exhaustion had plucked younger men from the line, but Uncle Joe, then 59, never faltered. He refused to ride one of the caravan's few mules: they were for the nurses and the wounded. Somehow the ragged line struggled through to the roadhead in India. The first, disastrous Burma campaign was ended...
...cutting the railroad that runs diagonally across Finland from Tornio on the Swedish frontier to south Karelia and the isthmus. Farther north, another column took Suomussalmi and turned southward toward lisalmi, a rail junction in the centre of Finland. Still farther north, a third column bore down on the roadhead of Kuusamo. Most daring of all, the fourth division crossed the low mountains to Kuolajärvi and thence sped westward past Kemijärvi toward Rovaniemi, which lies on Finland's highway to the Arctic. From Rovaniemi this column might strike southward to Kemi and Tornio, thereby commanding...
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