Sugarloafers Can See the Mountain in Their Mind's Eye
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Although it is a place devoid of glitz, not centrally located and can be windy and cold, Sugarloaf is a mountain that breeds intense loyalty.
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By MARY ESCH  LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - As dusk shrouded the summit of Whiteface Mountain, Juan Klavins aimed his headlamp at the bird in his left hand, its head between his fingers and its wing extended to expose a crimson vein.
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MINDEN, Nev., Sept. 13 -- The emptiness that adventure pilot Steve Fossett disappeared into at 10:30 a.m. on Labor Day appears almost endless from the air, a rugged moonscape of mountain ridges that deepen from brown to purple before dissolving into the horizon itself. There are mountains and mor...
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Once the province of bird-watchers, mountain climbers and sufferers of obsessive-compulsive disorder, the life list has become widely popular with the harried masses, equal parts motivational self-help and escapist fantasy.
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BERCHTESGADEN , Germany -- The narrow road climbed higher and higher, first past pastures and stone houses, then leaving even the fir trees to reach blinding, snowcapped peaks.
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By Jane Mcbride, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Sep. 24--Alice and Bobby Vaughan are hospitable kind of people who've always thought that if misfortune put pilgrims in their path, they'd take them in.   They never expected to be the ones seeking refuge.
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Utah's world-class mountain peaks have been barely visible at times from the floor of the Salt Lake valley. A winter storm that won't quit? No, it's nasty pollution that just won't blow away.
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CHITRAL, Pakistan -- In April 2005, when Paul Aurdic drove up from Pakistan's dusty plains to the crystalline air of mile-high Chitral, he seemed to be what people here want more than anything: a foreign tourist eager to explore their beautiful valley.
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By Greg Avery, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.  Dec.
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ZEPPELIN MOUNTAIN, Norway  - From a remote snowcapped mountain in the European Arctic you can detect China in the haze.
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Pay attention and you might grab a reward.
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Sometimes, when you're living through an event, you can be too close to what's happening to realize the magnitude of it.
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By Joe Miller, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 10--CHAPEL HILL -- Stewart Bryan loves riding his mountain bike.
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By Dominic Gates, Seattle Times  Dec. 17--SEDRO-WOOLLEY -- Quaint storefronts and a red-brick clock tower beckon mountain-bound tourists to stop in this small town. But a humming factory complex on the outskirts is what draws intense attention from manufacturers around the world.
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Take a close look, and you might like what you see.
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Driving toward this tiny town feels like nearing the edge of the earth, a place of jagged red-rock peaks surrounding dry valleys covered in pinyon trees.
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The latest findings from the Australian Blue Mountains Eye Study (BMES) suggest that lazy eye, or amblyopia, does not diminish a person's employment prospects.