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July 24, 2008
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Land Near Worcester's Pine Hill Reservoir Protected (MA)
TPL Agrees to Purchase 188 Acres from St. Mary's Abbey (NJ)
Cities Closing Park Roads to Cars
TPL in the News
Party for Parks in San Francisco, July 29
RFPs Request for Bayside Promenade Trail Design (ME)
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Party for Parks in San Francisco, July 29
Nominate a Conservation Hero
Parks for People - San Francisco Campaign
The Conservation Almanac
National Park(ing) Day
Travel with TPL in 2008
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| Erik Weihenmayer and his climbing party top a ridge on Wilson Peak. Photo: Ryan Ross |
The world's premier blind mountaineer joins TPL's effort to protect access to one of Colorado's grand "fourteeners."
By Joshua Zaffos
We catch our breath at 13,000-foot Rock of Ages Pass, a high-country saddle that separates two drainage basins along the rocky trail up 14,017-foot Wilson Peak, about ten miles from the chic mountain town of Telluride. After a grueling hike that began before daybreak—several hours earlier and 3,000 feet below—our party of sixteen climbers enjoys a breather and a sweeping vista of the San Miguel Mountains of southwestern Colorado.
But Erik Weihenmayer can't see any of it. Instead, he taps a walking stick against some rocks on either side of the pass, listens to the reverberations, and then correctly concludes which is the larger of the two basins.
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"No man loves the country more than I. Forest, trees, and rocks re-echo all that mankind longs for. Every tree seems to speak to me saying , 'Holy! Holy!'"--Ludwig van Beethoven
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