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By Joe Glickman

"Courage is resistance to fear...not absence of fear." --Mark Twain

Five months before the publication of  Fearless: One Woman, One Kayak, One Continent, the story of Freya Hoffmeister’s 332-day paddle around Australia, the big, bold Woman in Black headed south from Buenos Aires on the first of three, eight-month legs of what she hopes will be the first circumnavigation of South America by kayak.

By Leigh Scott, American Hiking Society

The pastoral countryside and peaceful rolling hills near Sharpsburg, Maryland, belie the fact that this beautiful landscape was the site of the bloodiest one-day battle in U.S. history. Were it not for silent platoons of sobering historical plaques, stalwart rows of strategically-placed cannons, and stoic legions of intricately-carved memorials, a hike through the Antietam battlefield would seem like a typical walk through the picturesque fields and farmlands along the Blue Ridge.

Sleeping Giant State Park in Hamden, Connecticut, north of New Haven (41°25′50″N 72°53′27″W), swarms in warm weather, its half-dozen small peaks packed with hikers, the majority heading up the Tower Trail to a three-story stone lookout built in the 1930s by the federal Work Projects Administration.

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