Do Adventurers Have To Pay For Backcountry Rescues?
A new service hopes to take the financial worry out of calling for rescue when you really need it.
- By justin.housman - February 19th, 2025 2:25am
Park Safety
Defuse Summer's TICKing Time Bomb
The buggiest blistering days of summer are just ahead. Add to that a nationwide early spring with record heat—and you have a TICKing time bomb for health problems at national parks in some parts of the country. Here's how to defuse it.
- By Randy Johnson - July 1st, 2012 8:44am
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