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To: J.B.C. who wrote (1)	4/21/1999 11:48:00 AM
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Not exactly travel links that you requested, but somehow related.. gorp.news Wed, 21 Apr 1999 Volume 1 : Number 23 In this issue: Colorado's Uncompahgre, Ontario's Algonquin, Top Spring Parks, Southeast Paddling, Catskills Fishing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 07:33:47 -0400 From: William.Greer@www.gorp.com (William Greer) To: gorp.news@www.gorp.com Subject: Colorado's Uncompahgre, Ontario's Algonquin, Top Spring Parks, Southeast Paddling, Catskills Fishing Message-ID: <19990421113347051.AAA270@www.gorp.com@486pc.gorp.com> Here's what's new on GORP - Great Outdoor Recreation Pages. VISIT COLORADO'S ALPINE WONDERLAND The Uncompahgre National Forest offers breathtaking high plateaus, redrock gorges, icy mountain lakes, and winding wilderness trails. With Telluride and Ouray, it's the heart of America's alpine country. Uncompahgre National Forest gorp.com TRIPLE CROWN HIKER Karen Berger is a "Triple Crown" hiker. She's walked the Continental Divide, the Appalachian and the Pacific Crest Trails end-to-end. As GORP's Online Forum guest until May 9, she'll answer questions about long-distance hiking and share her mistakes and triumphs. Read an excellent account of Karen's Continental Divide hike "Where the Waters Divide", written with co-hiker Dan Smith. Where the Waters Divide gorp.com Gorp Guest Karen Berger gorp.com Ask Karen a thru-hiking question www2.gorp.com WIN A VIETNAM ADVENTURE Trek isolated mountain villages of the Mai Chau Valley, the morning mist rising off lush green fields, a lazy brown river snaking through a quilt of rice paddies. Enter GORP's current trip giveaway and you may win this journey of a lifetime from Global Spectrum. Find the Vietnam Adventure icon on the GORP home page. GORP's home page gorp.com LEAP INTO SPRING 'Tis the season for restoring your faith in the great natural cycle! Mark Leger has picked a sampling of great National Parks for springtime rambles and paddles. Saguaro cactus flowers, fresh needles on bald cypress, trillium blooming on the forest floor, rivers running wild and free. What are you waiting for? Spring Pick-Me-Ups gorp.com PADDLE THE SOUTHEAST Classic whitewater, meandering flatwater, swampy blackwater =97 the rivers= of the American Southeast offer beauty and excitement at every stroke. Pamela Parker has rounded up 19 of them to keep you busy this spring. Paddler's Paradise: The American Southeast = gorp.com SEE ONTARIO'S GLORIOUS ALGONQUIN PARK Ontario's oldest provincial park is a vast wilderness playground of sugar maples, spruce bogs, wolves, moose, and spectacular canoeing. Michael and Alison Goldstein report on the remote camping, hiking, and paddling available in this famous Canadian treasure. Don't miss the photogallery!=20 Algonquin Provincial Park gorp.com FISH THE FINEST TROUT STREAM IN THE CATSKILLS The legendary Esopus River, a cold, clean Catskill river with arguably the best wild rainbow population in the Northeast. But who's arguing? Let's= fish! Esopus Extravaganza gorp.com EXPLORE THE WONDERS OF CHACO CANYON=20 A thousand years ago, this wildly beautiful canyon in New Mexico's high Sonoran desert was the center of Anasazi culture. It is now a culturally important archeological site, and offers opportunities for hiking, road and trail biking, and highly scenic driving. Chaco Culture National Historical Park gorp.com TRY THE FAST TRACK TO BANFF Three novice-to-expert fat-tire rides in Banff National Park, the legendary beauty-spot of the Canadian Rockies. Canadian Fast-Track gorp.com GET STARTED TYING FLIES We'll tell you everything you need to know to tie the ubiquitous woolly= worm. To Tie or Knot to Tie gorp.com TAKE A SAFARI ON THE OKAVANGO Lisa Jones braves the lap of luxury to breakfast with hippos and share her camp with a wild bull elephant in a journey to one of Africa's conservation successes: the Okavango Delta in Botswana. Okavango Safari gorp.com MORE FRESH GORP=20 Learn to photograph birds. Assemble a mountain-biker's tool kit. Know the signs of mountain sickness. See the icebergs of Newfoundland. Go to GORP! gorp.com