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On May 14, the normally reclusive Shabaab leader Sheikh Muktar Abdirahman released an 11-minute audiotape railing against the government. One of them was Abu Laith Al Libi, who orchestrated a 2007 suicide attack targeting Vice President Dick Cheney while he was visiting Bagram air base in Afghanistan. Privately, American officials rave about the drone program. Illegally operating Tuna fishing vessels (many from South Korea, some from Greece and China) carry now armed personnel and force their way into the Somali fishing grounds - uncontrolled or even protected by the naval forces mandated to guard the Somali waters against any criminal activity, which included arms carried by foreign fishing vessels in Somali waters. read more

Cutting through Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom is the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, a network of more than 20 rivers and streams throughout the Adirondacks and northern New England. My family and I didn’t know New England or Vermont in those good old times, so today’s Northeast Kingdom — the three-county northeastern corner of the state, bordering Canada — is good enough for us. Those characteristics extend beyond human culture, since northern Vermont is on the edge of the vast boreal forest that stretches across Canada and supports flora and fauna (moose, white birch, gray jay, to name a few) that we residents of the mid-Atlantic states don’t see in our back yards and parks. Recently, with the flowering of a quirky counterculture and a finely honed 21st-century marketing strategy, the Kingdom was crowned one of the United States’ first "geotourism" sites by the National Geographic Society. In summer, there’s trout fishing along the new Northern Forest Canoe Trail, which follows the Clyde River, and mountain biking along the 100-mile-plus Kingdom Trails network. read more

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As on day two of our three days fishing on the North Platte River in Wyoming near Casper out of North Platte Lodge. From there it is on to The Reef Fly Shop, part of the North Platte Lodge, to eat lunch out of the wind and plan our afternoon. Our final day to fish this trip is Friday, and yes, it is still snowing, really snowing today, not the ice pellets and sleet like projectiles of yesterday, but big, heavy, wet flakes reducing visibility dramatically. For the next two hours or so, we made repeated drifts through the same 400 yard stretch of river, Seth back rowing us upstream time after time to just below the imposing bulk of the dam and spillway, looming black and massive through the wind-driven snow. He boated a half a dozen rainbows on a new crawfish pattern created by Bob Clouser, the man who gave fly fishermen the vaunted Clouser Minnow years ago, a fly that catches virtually any fresh or saltwater fish. Every fish that morning was in the 20 inch range, and Dick, in Trent’s boat, took the biggest fish of the day and trip with a 24 inch plus rainbow that pushed seven pounds. read more

The trip includes opportunities for grizzly bear watching and two nights at April Point Lodge, Campbell River, with some of the finest fishing in Canada. According to Simon Grove of Tailormade Explore, "This itinerary enables visitors to experience Canada’s true wilderness at their own pace. Please Select Abidjan Adana Addis Ababa Adelaide, ST Ahmedabad Aix-en-Provence Aleppo Alexandria Alger Almaty Amman Amsterdam Ankara Astana Athens (ATHINAI) Auckland Baghdad Baku Bandung Bangkok Barcelona Barranquilla Beijing (Peking) Beirut Belgrade (BEOGRAD) Belo Horizonte Bel? Petersburg Surabaya Sydney, NS Tabriz Tai’an Tangerang Tashkent Tbilisi Tehran Tel Aviv-Yafo Tianjin Tokyo Torino Toronto, ON Tunis Ufa Ujung Pandang Valencia Vancouver, BC Vienna (WIEN) Warsaw (Warszawa) Washington D. read more

Reading Hindes’ journal, which has just been published by the Green Mountain Club, it is easy to get caught up in the adventure, the lure of the open trail, the profound satisfaction of living in the simpler world that the trail inhabits. The Long Trail that Hindes and Eames explored was the newest trail through the Vermont wilderness. It was Vermont’s in fact the nation’s first long-distance hiking trail, and would inspire the creation of the more famous Appalachian Mountain Trail. Though hundreds of hikers have written accounts of their time on the trail, Hindes deserved special attention, according to Reidun Nuquist, historian for the Green Mountain Club, which maintains the trail. July 4, 1931, marked a personal independence day for Hindes and Eames, as they put away their “civilian attire,” and hit the trail. Though the trail would offer many challenges, the young men easily made friends along the trail, among them affable fire wardens, a free-spirited Danish man who was wandering the world and a pair of Boy Scout troop leaders who they accompanied on a successful, if gruesome, hunt for porcupines. read more

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In winter the lake is frozen and snow-covered, small hilled islands are covered with spruce, trembling Ash, Birch and pine trees dusted with snow. He explained, for example, that some small mammals, voles, live the entire winter just above the land but under a 2- to 3-foot layer of snow, tunneling in for warmth (yes warmth) to the protection of the deeper, crystallized snow that is considerably warmer than the top of the ground during that part of the year. He said the caribou population is getting “hammered” by a combination diminution of its food supply, forest fires killing off the lichens and other caribou food sources and lastly, hunting. Although most live in houses, work in office environments and live non-traditional lives, they hang onto the need to “subsistence hunt” as if they had no access to grocery stories and lived in their ancestors’ teepees or igloos. They have yet, however, to raise their environmental consciousness to the point where they realize that without allowing wild animal populations to thrive, the rest of the environment will not thrive without them. read more

You may also browse an archive of previous live travel discussions. My husband and I planned this for a couple of years, staying at Phantom Ranch for two nights after hiking down the South Kaibab Trail, then hiked up the Bright Angel trail. Not the most exhausting, but definitely the one with the best payoff was in Glacier National Park, near The Lake McDonald Lodge - the trail to Avalanche Lake - only 4 miles RT; the lake has that opaque blue cast from glacial water, and is a moderate workout. As a one-time Boy Scout it’s the sort of trip I’ve always thought would be interesting to make, yet the days where I didn’t mind not showering for several days and sleeping on the ground seem to have faded well into the past. On the last day, after a long hike that included a traverse across the top of a mountain where the cross wind was so strong two of us needed to hold onto the smallest one so she did not get blown off the time of the mountain, we ended up at the Mount Washington Resort where the bus was scheduled to pick us up and take us back to Conn. Of course, that kind of travel is the worst kind for the environment - longer trips are always better, since air travel is hugely polluting - and this might not be the last time you’ll see cheap flights, and then there’s the economy. read more

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