A Trail That Exposed the Heart of the Badlands... [Derived Headline]
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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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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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Q I think the MisFits Trail Challenge is a great idea. This is without a doubt the best time to be outside in D.C. My question/request is for Metro/public transportation-accessible hikes. Any ideas?
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By Doug Kreutz, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 25--Desert trails lead to "cactus forests" of grand saguaros. High mountain paths take us into evergreen forests of towering pines. Somewhere in between lie woodlands of another kind: pygmy forests.
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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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Members of the Wasatch Backcountry Rescue team demonstrate the use of the first helicopter-mounted avalanche transceiver technology in the United States.
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By Jessica L. De Vault, Herald-Journal, Spartanburg, S.C.  Feb. 19--A group of Hunting Country residents are exploring a number of  options to assure that their spacious, rural region is left unscathed from  high-density development.
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By Minty Clinch  Big sky, big snow, big wagons. That's how the Rockies were when the West was won and that's how they are today. No doubt 19th- century pioneers driving horse-drawn carts cursed the champagne powder fields that barred their progress.
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Call it what you want, but publishing the picture of the downed victim is nothing but sensationalism. It is only exceeded by your arrogance in your weak explanation to your readers.  Richard Bateman  Magna  (c) 2007 Deseret News (Salt Lake City).
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By Greg Avery, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.  Dec.
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To some lovers of fast and open cruising, this may be the ultimate ski trail at New England's ultimate mountain, and this firsthand report is witness to the fact that Sugarloaf's Narrow Gauge trail was firm and fast as of Tuesday afternoon.
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By Rich Landers, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Mar. 8--None of my outdoor experiences has left a more vivid memory than watching four coyotes, who were unaware of my close proximity, as they attacked a frantic fawn mule deer.
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Federally owned lands are being transformed into the new playgrounds, and battlegrounds, of the American West.
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By M.S. Enkoji, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 16--A water trail that hugs the 72-mile shoreline of Lake Tahoe could become the next best way to showcase the magnificent depths of the mountain lake.
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The Department of the Interior is about to approve a regulation that would allow and even encourage mountain top mining, which involves blasting off the top of a mountain and dumping the remains in nearby valleys and streams. Yes, that's as bad for the environment as it sounds.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Tourists and political pilgrims  can now follow "Che's trail" in Bolivia, which traces Ernesto  Guevara's fatal attempt to export the Cuban revolution to one  of Latin America's poorest countries.
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By Chris Conrad, Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore.  Feb. 17--Imagine Tom Lowell's surprise when he set out to log a parcel of  land just outside Gold Hill and found that someone else had done the work for  him -- and reaped the benefits.