Archive for February, 2006
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
Three Cub Scouts reunited after getting lost in state park
Napa Valley Register – Napa,CA,USA
By MARSHA DORGAN, Register Staff Writer. Three Cub Scouts were reunited with their troop after being lost for about an hour and half in Robert Louis Stevensen State Park near Santa Rosa…
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Sunday, February 26th, 2006
Here’s coverage of the 2006 Mount Mitchell Marathon which takes place on the last weekend of each February.
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Posted in Highpoint (States) News, North Carolina | Comments Off
Saturday, February 25th, 2006

Hawaii is planning to eradicate the famed coqui frog from the island.
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Posted in Amphibians, Animals, Hawaii | Comments Off
Friday, February 24th, 2006
Backcountry Accident Reports at February 24, 2006
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
Ameren has settled with Taum Sauk Supt. Jerry Toop whose family was washed away in the Dec. 14 collapse of the Taum Sauk Reservoir.
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Posted in Highpoint (States) News, Missouri | Comments Off
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
Accident reports as of February 22, 2006
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
Authorities say somebody on Valentines Day apparently dismantled the Mauna Kea summit alter with a machete.
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Sunday, February 19th, 2006
Here’s February 22, 2006 accident reports:
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Posted in Accidents, Arizona, General, New Hampshire, Virginia | Comments Off
Saturday, February 18th, 2006
EverestNews via NepalNews reports that Pemba Dorje Sherpa, 28, who claims to have climbed Everest in a record 8 hours 10 minutes was thrown in jail after he went to the police to compalin of being harrassed claimed the record in 2004.
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Saturday, February 18th, 2006
Snowmobilers are calling for the resignation of John Sacklin is Yellowstone’s lead planner on the winter-use environmental study that examines the effects of snowmobiles in the park after he forwarded a snowmobile joke to them.
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Posted in Controversies, Wyoming | Comments Off
Friday, February 17th, 2006
The new $33 million lodge on Mount Magazine is the fifth largest ongoing construction project in Arkansas and the the state park system’s biggest project ever.
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Friday, February 17th, 2006

Police report they have recovered a 30 foot high 3-ton climbing wall that was stolen in Memphis from Outdoors Inc. but was recovered at the airport. The wall had been taken in tact and not broken apart.
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Posted in Offbeat, Tennessee | Comments Off
Friday, February 17th, 2006
Mountaineers are offering memorabilia on ebay in a charity fundraiser:
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Thursday, February 16th, 2006
Peruvian Holmes Pantoja Bayona claims to have climber South America’s highest point in 13 hours:
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Thursday, February 16th, 2006
Reports on five surviving avalanches on Ben Nevis:
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