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Confluence in The Canyonlands

Happy National Parks Week. Now walk a trail to one of the most extraordinary views on the planet. Two huge rivers merging. At a point where they've cut deep, sharp canyons. What you see is what you get - after 20 million years of erosion. Take a walk to a 3D geology lesson.
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Acadia National Park. Your Summer Vacation.

Happy National Parks Week. Here in Maine, USA every one of Acadia National Park's dozens of oceanside and mountainside trails is yours for the walking. Like the one to the summit of Sargent Mountain. Seven scenic miles up and back down.
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Delicate Arch: A Delicate Balance

A short trail through an exotic landscape to a stone arch that defies gravity. It's The Delicate Arch in Arches National Park. Less than two miles. 500 calories round trip.
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When humans walked the Earth every Day

It's Earth Day. Get back to where you once belonged. On your feet. We've been walking upright for a few million years. It's how we got places. Your highly evolved body still expects you to be walking everywhere. So many Ways.
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Balanced Monday: DIY Sanskrit

A 1-minute exercise that really makes you aware of the Way you use your core muscles to stabilize and balance yourself. To maintain your center of balance when your arms and legs are going their own ways. Here's a great Way to strengthen and stretch all those muscles.
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Parallel Parking: Preparing for Hiking

It's National Park Week. Free admission tomorrow to every one of them. Enjoy your Parks fully. And carefully. Because only you can prevent forest fires. Really. Smokey the Bear got laid off. Here's how to get in shape for Park walking and hiking. In an imaginary park. When you hit the real trail, you're ready to rock. And climb.
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Hiking Abraham-Lincoln in Vermont

Five miles on The Long Trail in Vermont. To the summit of Mt. Abraham and the top of Lincoln Peak. And back. Burn 1,200 calories on a beautiful half-day hike. Then restore a few just up the road on the Ben & Jerry's factory tour.
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Moving Monday: 1 minute for your butt

Time for a 1-minute exercise you can do at home or at work. One example of something you should do once every hour or two. C'mon. Stand up. Flex those glutes and quadriceps muscles. Press Play to see the Way.
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Climbing Mt. Everett

What a difference a letter makes. I'm in the Berkshires, not the Himalayas. A fairly serious hike, but you don't have to carry oxygen tanks. Or hire Sherpas. You can even bring your dog. Click for a great late Spring-early Summer day hike.
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Your Fifth Monday of the Month

The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Mondays of each month bring you new Ways to shake your thang, increase your flexibility, balance and strength, respectively. So what happens when the month has a 5th Monday? We invent a sport.
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