March-April 2002 • Issue Number 968 • Return to Trail & Timberline Home Page

Education

Cottonwood trees a water indicator in arid Colorado

From the Education Director: Emergency backcountry medicine

SENSE OF PLACE: Porter's Island

Education Updates

Wild Colorado

The Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest is the playground for the largest population concentration in Colorado. Read about the challenges of protecting and managing it.

The Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest

The Governor and Secretary Norton are stacking our RACs

Gunnison River proposed wilderness area

Celebrating CMC conservation volunteers

Roan Plateau: Colorado's newest battleground over gas production

Departments

News Briefs

Poetry

Paths by Harry Smith

Superstition Stanley and the Lost Dutchman Mine by Glenna Holloway

Something to smile about
Naming those peaks
by Marilyn Breithart

Yesteryear

features
This issue of Trail & Timberline deals with "foundational" matters: namely, the feet. A podiatrist writes about boot fit while a CMC leader writes about what happens when you ignore your feet. Lastly, hiking poles may assist your feet in their next ascent of a fourteener.
Cover photo from March-April T&T
On the care and feeding of feet by Terry Burr

Tender-
foot

by Guy del Prtince, DPM

Hiking Poles

by Bill Houghton

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