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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
July 23, 2004
A good backpacking trip is all about people.
And place.
The place was Big Indian Gorge, a glacier-scoured ravine that swoops down off the western rim of Steens Mountain in a headlong plunge straight from the pages of a coffee-table book. Six of us trooped up canyon, a half-dozen disparate....