Outdoors on the Trail
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By BOB RIEPENHOFF  For the fifth straight year, anglers enjoyed fantastic chinook fishing on Lake Michigan, reeling in the second-highest number of fish in 40 years, according to recently analyzed angler surveys.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alberta, Canada _ What's the perfect way to end the perfect hike at the perfect place in the Canadian Rockies?  To have a spot of tea, of course. The Canadians are, after all, a civilized bunch.
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By LAUREN DONOVAN  MEDORA - A trail that exposed the heart of the Badlands to hikers, mountain bikers and horseback riders will open it another 45 miles.  It's possible that bikes will only be allowed on the first 11 miles of the new trail.
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By Doug Kreutz, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 24--You might sense something in the air as you walk along the banks of Madera Creek, treading here and there on yellow-brown leaves shed by sycamore trees.   Autumn.
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By LAUREN DONOVAN  By LAUREN DONOVAN  A revised and possibly improved plan to extend the popular Maah Daah Hey Trail in the Badlands is open for public comment before a final decision is made, possibly late this summer.
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By Mary Lane Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb.
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Normally, transportation routes through wilderness are frowned on by conservationists. But a newly restored railroad in Madagascar is persuading locals not to slash and burn the surrounding landscape.
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By MARK WILSON, Courier & Press staff writer 464-7417 or wilsonm@courierpress.com  The quiet "thank you" of a shy bicyclist went unnoticed Tuesday afternoon, but only because the volunteers cleaning up part of the Pigeon Creek Greenway trail were hard at work.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 19--SMITHFIELD -- An information workshop about the Mountains to the Sea Trail project will be held at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Human Resources building, located at the corner of south 2nd and Johnston streets.
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Tourists are still beating a path to Nepal as its bloody civil war enters a critical phase. Malika Browne and Jan McGirk report. Trekkers on Nepal&#39;s remote mountain trails last spring would return to Kathmandu
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For the chance to recount nervy tales of outdoor machismo, many backcountry enthusiasts will risk nearly everything. Blocking off dangerous areas won't deter them, nor will frightening signs.
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It took more than eight years &#151; in bits and pieces, five or 10 miles at a time &#151; but Inez Ross has finally walked the Santa Fe Trail. The retired English teacher from Los Alamos trekked 875 miles across five states, from tony downtown Santa Fe at the trail's end to tiny New Franklin, Mo., at its beginning.
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In the snow sports industry, progress doesn't just trump aesthetics. It usually obliterates everything in its path.
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In the sweltering heat of late afternoon, Lorena Ochoa kept a steady stride as she ran briskly along the fairways and pine trees, rarely taking her eyes off the cart path. Constantly pushing herself to get stronger, fitter and better, Ochoa also is starting to race time.
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It's a beautiful day and the track is brimming with competitors. Let's go for a run.
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By Hillary Borrud, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Mar. 11--LYTLE CREEK -- It still takes some luck or knowledge to sight bighorn sheep in the San Gabriel Mountains, but the chances of spotting one have grown.
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By Matt Branaugh, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.  Dec.