CAVE SQUIRMING AND SLITHERING, by Lee Juillerat

California's Moaning Cavern's Adventure Tour is remarkable for its seemingly impossible passages—the Pancake squeeze, Joe's Adventure, Roach Motel, Birth Canal, and The Chimney, the more difficult of two routes—Godzilla's Nostril is the other....more

PEOPLE YOU MEET ON A TRAIN, by Ted and Sylvia Blishak
In business class on the Pennsylvanian, we sat across the aisle from a 24-year-old woman who had her entire earlobe, her nose, lip, and tongue pierced and adorned with silver jewelry. This was our first conversation with a pierced and tattooed person.....more

THE OREGON ZOO, by Vicki Hoefling Andersen
In November 1888, the City of Portland accepted a small menagerie of animals from a former sailor who had set up shop in town. The City didn’t intend to start a zoo, but the citizens were captivated by the monkeys, bears and birds housed on the hillside above the burgeoning city....more

SKI SUN PEAKS WITH SKI SISTERS, by Yvette Cardozo

Women ski differently. And, yes, they learn differently. I’ll never forget my first women’s clinic. It came not long after a ski class where I was one of two women among half a dozen men. We hit a ridge and everyone froze....more

HIKING THE MONTAÑA ABOVE MACHU PICCHU, by Julie Gangler

We both were struggling with the 10- to 12-inch-high steps that led up Machu Picchu Montaña, the big mountain rising 1,640 feet above “the lost city of the Incas.”....more