Winter 2009
FEATURED ARTICLES
Rescue Under a Midnight Sun
Talkeetna, Alaska is a stunningly rugged frontier town that serves as the jumping-off point for anyone planning to climb Mt. McKinley, the towering jewel of Denali National Park & Preserve.
Healing Waters
When you watch Rob Brown disappear around the river bend with the grace and speed of an Olympian, leaving every kayaker on the Potomac River in his wake, you wouldn’t know that a gunshot wound in Iraq left his leg permanently immobile.
And Heaven in a Wildflower
They have wreathed the locks of royalty, fragranced the privies of the Middle Ages, and been prescribed as cures for everything from snake bites to the pangs of unrequited love.





