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Dust, sun, and bikes. What's not to like?(Photo: Susan Becker/Burning Man Facebook) Hey, did you hear:Burning Manis going on right this moment! Like me, your In…

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What Hiking Alone Taught Me After 11,000 Miles with My Wife

Early this spring, during afact-finding sprint up a storm-damaged sectionof theAppalachian Trail(AT), I had a comical epiphany about my backpacking life: Despit…

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