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  Philosophical Backpacking

  By John Walters on March 20, 2025

  In 1980, my friend, Jim, and I decided to hike in the Uinta Mountains of Utah. Stuart Johnson, another good friend from the Geothermal Branch of Philips Petroleum said if we wanted to find good...

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  March Madness: Basketball & a Blizzard in Liberal, Kansas

  By Nancy Kopp on March 14, 2025

  After a week’s visit with my brother and his wife in New Mexico, we were heading back to Kansas. Our plan was to go as far as Liberal, spend the night and on to Manhattan, our home, the next day. We...

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  Outdoor Encounters

  By Nathan Bolls on March 6, 2025

  How long has it been since you’ve experienced a moment of genuine healthful silence, a time during which you were profoundly, silently, reverently alone with yourself, or with Nature, or with another...

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