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		<title>Walking the Devil&#8217;s&#160;Backbone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2016 20:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dayhikes Loveland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Devil's Backbone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiking Fort Collins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiking Loveland]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The devil is buried. And his backbone protrudes. You can walk beside it, touching the sides of his massive vertebrae. Chilling? Creepy? Actually it’s a fine spring hike or bike, for you, the kids and the&#160;dog. The burial site can be found just west of Loveland, Colorado on Highway 34, about an hour south of&#160;Cheyenne. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Greyrock&#160;Mountain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2015 05:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are surprises (Wow!) and surprises (Whoa!). On any trip, let’s have more of the first. The Greyrock Trail, not far from Cheyenne, has some solid “Wow’s”, and on my recent foray down from the peak, one definite&#160;“Whoa!”. Driving up the winding Poudre River canyon from Ft. Collins you’ve probably noticed some trailheads. The is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Bison at Soapstone&#160;Prairie</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2015 04:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ten genetically pure bison will be returned to the grasslands of Soapstone Prairie and Red Mountain Open Space on November 1,&#160;2015. The release of the bison, known as the Laramie Foothills Conservation Herd, is a joint project of the City of Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado State University and the US Department of Agriculture Animal [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Twins Looking at Twins:   The Twin&#160;Sisters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2015 17:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Estes Park Hikes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rocky Mountain National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twin Sisters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Pawnee, it is said, found their way around the Colorado plains by noting the location of “the Twins,” that great pair of peaks we know as Longs and Mt. Meeker. The very best view of those twins, a close up, may be from another pair of twins, the Twin Sisters.&#160; If you are interested [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Rocky Mountain National Park:  Centennial&#160;Celebration</title>
		<link>http://www.awayfromthegrind.com/blog/hiking/rocky-mountain-national-park-centennial-celebration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2015 17:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Calypso Cascades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copeland Falls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crystal Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flattop Mountain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glacier Gorge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grand Ditch Trail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lake Nanita]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lake Nokoni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawn Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawn Lake Trail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mills Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mirror lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Inlet Trail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ouzel Falls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rocky Mountain National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wild Basin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wild Basin Trail]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rocky turned 100 on January&#160;26th. Rocky being Rocky Mountain National Park.   1915 was the year President Woodrow Wilson signed on, making it the nation’s 9th.National Park.   The official dedication ceremony was held on September 4, 1915.  So think of this year’s spring and summer as one long birthday celebration for&#160;Rocky. How can you best join [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>El Morro National&#160;Monument</title>
		<link>http://www.awayfromthegrind.com/blog/hiking/new-mexico/el-moro-national-monument/</link>
		<comments>http://www.awayfromthegrind.com/blog/hiking/new-mexico/el-moro-national-monument/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2015 02:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Mexico]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First trivia question:  “What is the nation’s first national monument?”  You’ve got it.  Devils Tower.  A matter of Wyoming pride, it adorns our license plates.  President Teddy Roosevelt made that declaration on September 24,&#160;1906. So what is the nation’s second national monument?   Tough one, isn’t&#160;it? Hint:  Also a big rock, but sandstone.  And in a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Medicine Bow One&#160;Hundred</title>
		<link>http://www.awayfromthegrind.com/blog/hiking/the-medicine-bow-one-hundred/</link>
		<comments>http://www.awayfromthegrind.com/blog/hiking/the-medicine-bow-one-hundred/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2015 03:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wyoming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Backacking Medicine Bow National]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Backpacking Medicine Bow National Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiking Medicine Bow National Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Long Distance Backpacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicine Bow 100]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicine Bow One Hundred]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North French Creek Trail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Platte River Wilderness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rock Creek Canyon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Savage Run Wilderness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheep Mountain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ The One Hundred Mile Backpack Route through the Medicine Bow National Forest of Wyoming Cheyenne backpacker Shan Holyoak likes a long trail. One hundred miles at least. Six times he has hiked the Centennial Trail, 111 miles through the Black Hills, as a spring get-in-shape warm-up for bigger things. Those things include the Superior Hiking [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Bobcat Ridge Natural&#160;Area</title>
		<link>http://www.awayfromthegrind.com/blog/hiking/colorado/bobcat-ridge-natural-area/</link>
		<comments>http://www.awayfromthegrind.com/blog/hiking/colorado/bobcat-ridge-natural-area/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2015 00:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bobcat Ridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bobcat Ridge Natural Area]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fort Collins open space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiking near Cheyenne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiking near Fort Collins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A spring excursion for everyone (well, almost everyone) at Bobcat Ridge Natural&#160;Area Waking from your long winter’s sleep? Want to chase down a taste of spring? Try out Bobcat Ridge, one of Fort Collins’ Natural Areas. With 16 miles of trails this foothills area has something for everyone. And I mean everyone.&#160;Almost. There are the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Backpacking&#160;101</title>
		<link>http://www.awayfromthegrind.com/blog/hiking/backpacking-101/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2015 23:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backpacking gear list]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cascade creek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crater Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[east inlet trail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How to Backpack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indian peaks wilderness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lake verna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lone eagle peak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mirror lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pawnee lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pawnee pass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rockymountain national park]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Would you like to try backpacking? Wild, the best-selling memoir and movie starring Reese Witherspoon, has put many people in a backpacker’s boots&#8211;in imagination.&#160; But are you wondering “Could I do that? Would I want to do that?” For some there is an emphatic “No way! What was I thinking for that nano-second?!” But if [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Everglades:  Beauty that&#160;Whispers</title>
		<link>http://www.awayfromthegrind.com/blog/hiking/the-everglades-a-rocky-mountain-backpacker-searches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.awayfromthegrind.com/blog/hiking/the-everglades-a-rocky-mountain-backpacker-searches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cape Sable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collier-Seminole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Everglades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kayaking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is a Rocky Mountain backpacker doing in the Everglades? Well, it’s cold out here in Wyoming. Work took me to Florida. And I had that familiar yearning to get out, out far, far away, where I could breathe, really breathe. Could I find it in&#160;Florida? So there are the Everglades, the third largest National [&#8230;]]]></description>
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