By JEFFREY P. MAYOR, Tacoma News Tribune

16 years, 16,000 miles: Man hikes nation's scenic trails

Bart Smith has completed 85 percent of his goal. But when you realize the Lakewood, Wash. man's goal is to hike all 16,000 miles of the National Scenic Trail system, you comprehend the remarkable challenge he still faces.

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Sounding off over the issue of allowing guns in parks

A debate on allowing firearms in national parks splits people like the icy fissures that crease the flanks of Washington state's Mount Rainier. People such as Jim Williams and Jim McAfee, longtime National Rifle Association members, see it as a Second Amendment issue.

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