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One sheer drop-off to the right, another eight feet to the left. A switchback ridge so steep that three steps brings you to the next turn. Rope handholds to clutch when the mountain trail shrinks to less than a foot wide.

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Tigerfish, in the words of adventure angler Larry Dahlberg, “have the fuselage of a bonefish, the tail of a tarpon, the paint job of a striped bass, teeth like a bull shark and a compound hinged jaw that works like a turbo-powered paper shredder.” They are found in the Zambezi River, Zambia, and catching one is akin to “hooking a crocodile.”

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Chocolate magnate Milton S. Hershey wasn’t all work and no play. Hershey’s vision for the company town he built also included a “picnic and pleasure grounds” for employees and their families to enjoy in their free time. In his master plan, he set aside 150 acres of wooded farmland for recreation across the tracks from the chocolate factory he started building in 1903.

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On March 5th, my budget was a strong, vigorous and ready to tackle the world. It had known only good times in its short life, and in those sweet, carefree days my budget’s might was exceeded only by its innocence.

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