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“With camping gear and an overnight permit in hand, we chose the long route, a 22-mile round-trip hike that would take us past Hanakapi’ai to one of the island’s most secluded beaches, Kalalau Beach. To get there, we followed the Kalalau Trail through dense tropical forests where the trees had leaves the size of refrigerators and often drooped over the trail.” In the Boston Globe, Kari Bodnarchuk describes both the relaxing and the high-tension elements of exploring what travel writers have long considered one of the most beautiful islands on earth.
"Four days and 263 miles into a backcountry race and Kathy Roche-Wallace isn't even halfway to the finish. She's limping on a big toe that is infected and swollen. She has a purple bruise the size of a grapefruit on her left thigh from a spill down a mountainside. Her sweat smells of vinegar and ammonia, a sign her fuel-starved body has started burning muscle." Alexandra Alter writes about the popular 500-mile race through Montana's backcountry. In The Wall Street Journal.
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