Growing up in the Chicago suburbs, Kevin Toohill yearned to experience the wide-open vistas of the western U.S. Today, the avid outdoorsman lives with his family in Billings, Mont., where he runs Beartooth Mapping, a firm that sells customized topographic maps and other geographic products. Its Web site, MyTopo.com, allows consumers to customize maps by choosing the location, center, area, size, print finish and numerous other specifications. The company grosses between $2 million and $3 million annually.
Drug traffickers are planting millions of marijuana plants on U.S. public lands ever closer to tourist sites, guarding their plots with heavy weaponry, federal authorities say.
John Spieker stood on the back porch of his newly rented Bailey, Colorado, home, thankful for his Good Samaritan landlord and worried that his previous home, parked in the driveway, wouldn't get him to work the next day.
Fans of Usher Raymond IV view him as a singing, dancing and acting superstar.
For Brad Cohen, the barking and squealing noises he could not control began in the fifth grade.
Three children at a summer camp in northern Georgia have contracted swine flu and dozens more have been separated from other campers after showing signs of the flu, but all are recovering, authorities said Thursday.
If it's true that one man's junk is another man's treasure, welcome to the treasure chest of Andrew Novick. He's been collecting just about everything that has entered his life for the last 20 years, and now his objets d'junque have become a hit in the art world.
Susan Lanier has always enjoyed getting out of her urban home in Chicago, Illinois.
It's the season of brackets, beer and, of course, basketball.
A search will continue Thursday in the Black Hills of South Dakota for a Nebraska family that has been missing since March 20.
Growing up in the Chicago suburbs, Kevin Toohill yearned to experience the wide-open vistas of the western U.S. Today, the avid outdoorsman lives with his family in Billings, Mont., where he runs Beartooth Mapping, a firm that sells customized topographic maps and other geographic products. Its Web site, MyTopo.com, allows consumers to customize maps by choosing the location, center, area, size, print finish and numerous other specifications. The company grosses between $2 million and $3 million annually.
Drug traffickers are planting millions of marijuana plants on U.S. public lands ever closer to tourist sites, guarding their plots with heavy weaponry, federal authorities say.
John Spieker stood on the back porch of his newly rented Bailey, Colorado, home, thankful for his Good Samaritan landlord and worried that his previous home, parked in the driveway, wouldn't get him to work the next day.
Fans of Usher Raymond IV view him as a singing, dancing and acting superstar.
For Brad Cohen, the barking and squealing noises he could not control began in the fifth grade.
Three children at a summer camp in northern Georgia have contracted swine flu and dozens more have been separated from other campers after showing signs of the flu, but all are recovering, authorities said Thursday.
If it's true that one man's junk is another man's treasure, welcome to the treasure chest of Andrew Novick. He's been collecting just about everything that has entered his life for the last 20 years, and now his objets d'junque have become a hit in the art world.
Susan Lanier has always enjoyed getting out of her urban home in Chicago, Illinois.
It's the season of brackets, beer and, of course, basketball.
A search will continue Thursday in the Black Hills of South Dakota for a Nebraska family that has been missing since March 20.
Sanderson Farms had to make a crucial decision last year about corn feed, one of the poultry seller's major costs. Chairman and CEO Joe Sanderson looked at several metrics, then had "a big prayer meeting" aabout whether or not to lock in feed prices, which had then skyrocketed to $8 a bushel.
I'm lying in a hole in the darkness, ice-cold and soaking wet. There's barely room for me to turn from my right side to my left, but with a grunt I manage to twist onto one shoulder and angle the blade of a small metal shovel against the wall of snow a few inches from my head. As I chip at it, icy spray hits me in the face.
The next move of a pilot taken into custody at a Florida campground depends on word from doctors, authorities said Thursday.
Erika Preuss gave a worried glance over rows and rows of empty cars packing the Wal-Mart parking lot at 3:30 a.m.
The suspect in the shooting of a woman killed during a Ku Klux Klan initiation has at least a seven-year history of Klan activity, according to an organization that tracks hate groups nationwide.
A woman recruited over the Internet and shot to death during a Ku Klux Klan group's initiation rite felt a need to be wanted and was eager to be part of a group, authorities say family members told them.
Ramin Ostadhosseini needed to vent, and this gathering seemed the place to do it.
The world's oldest tennis tournament retains many of the same customs and quirks 131 years after it was first staged. It's the only Grand Slam event still played on grass, despite perennial moans from the clay- and hard-court specialists who struggle to adjust. Players--who are always referred to as "gentlemen" and "ladies"--must wear predominantly white, and the courts are unsullied by conspicuous corporate logos.
At a time when gas prices are at an all-time high, Americans have curtailed their driving at a historic rate.
During the week Ryan Samuel, 30, is a married man working in the energy market in Richardson, Texas. But on the weekends he lures men away from their homes, wives and children with beer, camaraderie, power tools and "The Ponderosa."
During the week Ryan Samuels, 30, is a married man working in the energy market in Richardson, Texas. But on the weekends he lures men away from their homes, wives and children with beer, camaraderie, power tools and "The Ponderosa."
A Spanish businessman withdrew a controversial lawsuit Wednesday against the family of a teenage boy he struck and killed while driving a luxury car.
Good training and preparation kept a group of Boy Scouts safe after they became lost while hiking in the North Carolina mountains, a troop leader and a relative said Monday.
This is how it ended for Howard Garfinkel.
Driving by the marquee on Crain Highway in Bowie, Md., you won't see anything about the Bowie Baysox players who call nearby Prince George's Stadium home. There's no mention of the evening's pitching matchup or the team's record. Instead, the digital display flashes announcement after announcement -- "FIREWORKS TONIGHT!" "PINK IN THE PARK DAY!" -- letting passers-by know minor league baseball promotional heaven is only a mile away.
Something keeps drawing me back to New Zealand. I suspect something always will.
"Operation Purple" camp in Santa Barbara allows children whose mothers or fathers are deployed by the military to have some summer fun with other kids who know exactly what they're going through.
Next time you visit the Big Island, why not skip the fancy resort and hop in a VW camper van?
What could be more American than a recreational vehicle? How about an 18-wheel semi that, at the press of a remote control, "pops up" into a motel with room for nearly four dozen people?
Rob Cronin walked out of his doctor's office and into the church next door. Reeling from the news that he had cancer, he knelt in a pew and made a deal with the Divine: "Let me live," he prayed, "and I'll pay it back."
Long workweeks -- up to 120 hours -- are common at the Boulder, Colo., offices of Crispin Porter & Bogusky. So the award-winning ad agency, known for inventive campaigns like Burger King's Subservient Chicken website and Virgin Atlantic's mock flight-safety cards, decided to look for an equally creative way to help employees with their work/life balance.
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For parents, sending kids off to summer camp is an emotional balancing act: There's the prospect of fresh air and friendships, competition and camaraderie, but there's also the worry of insect bites, injuries and allergies.
It was once a mystery to me why some families would spend precious vacation time in a monstrous motor home, plodding along at 35 miles an hour. But that was before my husband spent ten years working 70-hour weeks to make partner in his law firm, before I juggled writing for eight publications, before our kids got invovled in basketball, soccer, theater, and piano lessons. Connecting as a family often meant marching the kids out to do yard cleanup.
Authorities searching for a 12-year-old Boy Scout missing since Saturday found his mess kit near where he had been camping with members of his troop near the Blue Ridge Parkway, officials told CNN Sunday.
AS A CHILD, RETZER CARIAGA lived in a one-bedroom home on the impoverished Philippine island of Mindanao. The house, made of bamboo and coconut lumber, had no electricity or plumbing. To supply the...
By national park standards, Isle Royale's tourist tally of 23,000 is small. In June, July or August, you'll likely find manageable "crowds," as well as great weather. North of Michigan's Upper Peninsula lies this lesser-known getaway -- a favorite of backpackers, kayakers and world-weary jet-setters who seek unspoiled splendor.
Under blue skies in mild summer temperatures you reap the benefits of months of rain and dampness -- lush moss gardens, towering cedar groves, warm beaches crazy wildflowers. Olympic National Park also offers the variety-pack of life zones: wilderness beaches wild with salt spray, rocky headlands and scattered sea stacks; temperate rain forests with more shades of green than a Crayola factory; high mountain spines at Hurricane Ridge; and even glaciers in the high alpine zone.
This remote, relatively unknown region hides a fascinating, unique landscape. In "Travels with Charley," novelist John Steinbeck says of the area: "It was so beautiful that I stopped near a thicket of dwarfed and wind-warped cedars and junipers, and once stopped I was caught, trapped in color and dazzled by the clarity of the light."
Yellowstone got the hot springs, geysers, bison, more central location and crowds. That left Glacier -- tucked into Montana's temperate, remote northwest corner and spilling into Canada -- with majestic mountains, sapphire rivers and long, valley-filling lakes. In early summer, the vivid green bases of the mountains erupt in flowers every color of the rainbow.
Experience the northern tier of jaw-dropping national parks this summer. Spend days in the sunshine and cool nights in a cottage rental.
Snow may still be on the ground in some places, but summer camps are already beginning to fill up.
As soon as news of the deal broke, outdoorsmen were skeptical. Last January, C.C. Filson, a storied 107-year-old maker of outdoor clothing for hunters and fishermen, was sold to a private-equity fi...
The average RV buyer sets sail in his land-yacht at age 49--and then gets so hooked that he turns into a repeat customer. This statistical pearl gave the folks at Airstream a bright idea: Why not g...
Nathan Ruffin and Shawna Rubbeck know what it's like to be teased about their weight.
Hotel rates are on the rise this summer according to a recent study by consulting company PricewaterhouseCoopers. That's just another reason to skip the room service and polish up those tent poles.
How do you outsmart Wal-Mart? By not trying to.
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Mark Piland is preparing for what he calls, even before the fact, a "camp out gone bad."
Many adults may remember camping as a summer ritual arranged by their parents to keep them out of trouble.
Summer is almost upon us and what better time to hit the road in search of greatness. You've heard of the cockroach hall of fame and the accounting hall of fame, haven't you? Here are some other halls of fame that are a little less known and a little more eccentric.
Pope John Paul celebrates his 84th birthday on Tuesday. CNN International Anchor Ralitsa Vasileva asked CNN's Rome Bureau Chief Alessio Vinci how the pontiff and the Vatican plan to mark the occasion.
Most winter sports enthusiasts scoff at frigid temperatures and frozen appendages. Snow-matted facial hair and nose icicles serve as a testament to their commitment and rugged determination.
How do we create buzz? I don't think we do. All the hoopla around our store openings--where people camp out and line up overnight--is truly a phenomenon. It's spontaneous. We don't advertise our st...
When Lewis and Clark traversed the western rivers, it was part survival, part discovery. We camped in...one of the most beautiful places I ever saw in my life, wrote one bedraggled expedition member in 1804. Today not much has changed about that wild beauty, but getting there is far easier.
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Life outdoors doesn't have to be rough. As long as you have the right gear, that is. With the weather turning warm and campsites beckoning, we talked to buyers at some of the most respected outdoor...
Israel "Izzy" Paskowitz has surfed thousands of waves, but the one he remembers most clearly is his first. On a Corky Carroll longboard, the 6-year-old and his father paddled out tandem-style into ...
If a hurricane, thunderstorm, blizzard, or the millennium knocks out your electricity, the only source of power in your house could be you. But with Aiwa's new Dynamo FR-C151 portable radio and fla...
You have to go camping only once to know that the right gear is what separates the awesome adventure from the outright disaster. But finding that gear--How light must it be? What materials are best...
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As the baby boomers hit middle age, they look for low-impact ways to stay fit. Not surprisingly, camping and hiking are more popular than ever. Since 1983, the number of overnight camping stays in ...
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Unspoiled, unsung and largely undiscovered, America's 2,040 state parks are the nearest thing there is to having wilderness in your own backyard. Says Kathy Bartlett, Northeast regional director fo...
With swimming, basketball, and other indoor sports maxed out in popularity, what will recreational athletes do next? Take a hike. Or a camping trip. Kurt Salmon Associates, a consulting firm, predi...
There is no need to deny yourself a winter vacation in the tropics just because your budget is as tiny as a thong bikini. You can strip away a big part of the cost of lying on the beach if you slee...
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