

Today’s guest blogger, REI employee Ching Fu, recounts the soaring highs and chilly lows of her bike tour of the entire Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway last summer: It had been raining for 3 days straight, and I was ready to just be home. But I had to keep pedaling. The bitter cold rain was an unwelcome surprise, especially since it was July in the southeast... ...
Volunteers are exemplary people who dedicate themselves to noble causes. Yet how many act this nobly, or serve with such dedication? Meet Jim and Carol Miltimore, who in 2005 agreed to spend their retirement years serving as volunteers at Mount Rainier National Park, the great big mountain where they shared their first date and later exchanged vows on their wedding day. (Lovebird factoid: The two will celebrate their 20th anniversary on Oct. 10.) Since then the couple has donated more than ...
Posted by T.D. Wood on January 5, 2012 8:39 PM & Tagged Jim and Carol Miltimore, Mount Rainier, national parks and volunteer | permalink | Comments
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