Winter dogs share common adaptations to cold weather. Typically thick-furred, they are larger and smarter than normal dogs and bred to glide over powder and sniff out the faintest scents from intruders to people in need.

The millionaire art dealer had been diagnosed with cancer. Until then Fenn led an adventurous life and he wanted an adventurous death. After soul searching, he hatched a plan. He would stuff an antique bronze chest with some of the artifacts he spent his life collecting: 265 coins, pre-Columbian animal figures, gold dust, an antique dragon coat bracelet fixed with 250 some odd rubies, several diamonds, a 2,000-year-old Colombian necklace, and more

There is no more special place in the lower 48 than the Bob Marshall Wilderness area, and no more special getaway from “the clutches of mechanistic civilization” than the small, rustic intrusion of the K Bar L ranch west of Augusta. Our first sign of its