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	Backbone Mountain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Backbone Mountain is a mountain range in the central Appalachians in the United States.
		The headwaters of Youghiogheny River, in the watershed of the Mississippi River, lie just northwest of the mountain, whereas the headwaters of the North Branch of the Potomac River lie just south of the mountain, along the West Virginia-Maryland border.
		The ridge is crossed by U.S. Highway 50.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Backbone_Mountain (206 words)

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		Mountain yellow-legged frogs have highly variable skin patterns and coloration ranging from large, discrete dark spots to numerous, smaller spots; coloration may be a mix of brown or yellow, but can often include hues of gray, red, or greenish-brown.
		Mountain yellow-legged frogs in southern California represent the southernmost occurrence of the species and extinction of this DPS would substantially reduce the overall range of the species and could have potential impacts to its long-term survival.
		In the Sierra Nevada, the loss of a population of mountain yellow-legged frog was thought to be caused by ‘red-leg’ disease, and there are studies reporting deaths of boreal toads in the Rocky Mountains due to this disease.
	www.fws.gov /carlsbad/Rules/Mountain_YL_frog/mylf_frule_Q&ADC.htm (1314 words)

	Taum Sauk Mountain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taum Sauk Mountain in the Saint Francois Mountains is the highest point in the U.S. state of Missouri, 1,772 feet (540 m) above mean sea level.
		Whereas vertical relief in the rest of the Ozarks region is the result of erosion of sedimentary strata, the St. Francois are an ancient Precambrian igneous uplift several times older than the Appalachians.
		This park, the Bell Mountain Wilderness Area, and nearby Johnson's Shut-ins State Park make up part of a large wilderness area that is very popular with hikers and backpackers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taum_Sauk_Mountain (578 words)

	billingsgazette.com
		Their name for the Front was "the Backbone of the World," and they sought wisdom through vision quests on places such as Ear Mountain and Heart Butte.
		In the case of Montana's Overthrust Belt, while the mountains were building on the west, sand and mud was being deposited on the floor of the inland sea that once covered the prairie.
		As cold air arrives, it pushes warm air up against the east side of the mountains (upsloping), and, as this warm air rises and cools, copious amounts of snow can fall at the lower elevations while the amount deposited at higher altitudes is lighter.
	www.billingsgazette.com /index.php?ts=1&display=rednews/2004/10/10/build/magazine/25-backbone.inc (2634 words)

	Lebanon (country) - MSN Encarta
		In the Lebanon Mountains, temperatures decrease and precipitation increases with elevation: Heavy winter snows linger well into summer, making the Lebanon Mountains more pleasant in the summer than the humid coast; higher altitudes receive as much as 1,300 mm (50 in) of annual precipitation.
		The Bekáa Valley and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains are situated in the rain shadow of the Lebanon Mountains and as a result have hot, dry summers and cold winters with occasional rain.
		Although Lebanon has no navigable rivers or major natural lakes, springs in the Bekáa feed two small noteworthy rivers: the Līţānī flows south, where it is used for irrigation and hydroelectric-power generation, and then west through a gorge into the Mediterranean; the Orontes flows north and across Syria into Turkey.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564963/Lebanon_(country).html (559 words)

	Cheaha Mountain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cheaha Mountain, often called Mount Cheaha, is the highest point in the U.S. state of Alabama.
		Cheaha Mountain is geologically related to the Appalachian Plateau, generally known in Tennessee as the Cumberland Plateau.
		Alabama Public Television has its transmitter and radio antennas for WCIQ TV 7 (and temporary DTV 53) on a radio tower atop this mountain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Cheaha (205 words)

	Maryland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The highest point in Maryland is Backbone Mountain, which is the southwest corner of Garrett County, near the border with West Virginia and near the headwaters of the North Branch of the Potomac.
		The state harbors a great number of deer, particularly in the woody and mountainous west of the state, and overpopulation can become a problem from year-to-year.
		The three counties of Western Maryland (Allegany, Garrett, and Washington) are mountainous and sparsely populated, resembling West Virginia more than they do the rest of Maryland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maryland (4623 words)

	Questions about the Listing of the Southern California Distinct Population Segment of Mountain Yellow-legged Frog as ...
		The mountain yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa), a member of the family of ‘true frogs', (Ranidae) is a relatively small frog that measures about 1.5 to three inches in length from the snout to the base of the backbone.
		Mountain yellow-legged frogs in southern California and those in the Sierra Nevada Mountains are geographically separate and are genetically different.
		The southern California DPS of mountain yellow-legged frog occurs in only a few small, isolated populations in portions of the San Gabriel, San Bernardino, and San Jacinto Mountains.
	www.fws.gov /pacific/news/2002/65/qa.htm (1348 words)

	Maryland Mountain Property, Maryland Mountain Home, Maryland Mountain Land
		Mountain Connections is your #1 Source for finding your dream Maryland mountain home, Maryland mountain property or Maryland mountain land.
		This part of the state is in the Appalachian Mountain region, where apples, peaches, maple syrup, honey and lumber are abundant.
		This frontier region is where you'll find Backbone Mountain, the highest mountain in the state, which is 3,360 feet tall.
	www.mountainconnections.com /Maryland/index.htm (988 words)

	Mountain Subdivision - The Glades
		Between Terra Alta, West Virginia and Altamont, Maryland, the Mountain Subdivision crosses the rolling hills and valleys of the high Allegheny Plateau situated at the top of Briery and Backbone Mountains.
		From the "58 Cut" at Hutton, the Mountain Subdivision enters the Youghiogheny River valley and follows the small river for several miles until the railroad crosses over the Yough a mile west of Oakland, Maryland.
		Mountain Lake Park is the location of the only set of double crossovers between Piedmont and McMillian resulting in it often being used to route trains around work limits or problems on either of the two main tracks.
	www.wvrail.railfan.net /glades.html (1517 words)

	Welcome to the Monongahela National Forest in Elkins, WV.
		Mountain bikes are currently permitted on most National Forest roads and trails on the Monongahela National Forest except those in designated Wildernesses (Dolly Sods, Otter Creek, Laurel Fork North and South, and Cranberry Wildernesses) and in a few special areas such as the Cranberry Glades Botanical Area.
		Canaan/Backbone Mountain Area near Davis and Thomas, West Virginia: Forest Roads 13 (Canaan Loop Road) and 18 (Canyon Rim Road) and several trails on Canaan Mountain and in the Blackwater Canyon (including the former railroad grade from Thomas to Hendricks) offer a variety of routes.
		If you are interested in volunteering to improve or maintain mountain biking opportunities on the Monongahela, you are invited to contact the Forest Supervisor's Office, 200 Sycamore St., Elkins, WV 26241, (304) 636-1800 or any of the Ranger Districts at Parsons, Petersburg, Bartow, Marlinton, Richwood, or White Sulphur Springs.
	www.fs.fed.us /r9/mnf/rec/mountain_biking_opportunities.html (658 words)

	Allegheny Mountains - West Virginia (WV) Cyclopedia
		The Allegheny Mountains, or "The Alleghenies" of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania, are part of the Appalachian Mountains of eastern North America.
		West Virginia's highest peak, Spruce Knob, at 4,861 feet, Pennsylvania's highest peak, Mount Davis, at 3,213 feet, and Maryland's highest peak, Backbone Mountain, at 3,360 feet, are located in the central Allegheny Mountains.
		Geologically speaking, the Alleghenies represent the uplifted eastern edge of the Allegheny Plateau region, which rises slowly eastward from nearly 100 feet above sea level in eastern Ohio to 4,000 above sea level at the Allegheny Front, the well defined eastern edge of the plateau in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and West Virginia.
	www.wvexp.com /index.php/Allegheny_Mountains (294 words)

	ReporterHerald- Good Samaritans on Devil’s Backbone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		With the help of two other mountain bikers, they loaded Hollingsed onto one of the bikes and pushed Hollingsed back to the trailhead.
		They were finishing up their day of trail hosting on Devil’s Backbone about four weeks ago and were hiking back when he slipped — two miles from the trailhead.
		On Devil’s Backbone, there are no emergency access roads for ambulances and no wheelchair ramps to scoot down to the trailhead for help.
	www.lovelandfyi.com /region-story.asp?ID=5910 (514 words)

	mtnsub.org - Mountain Subdivision
		In 1848, newly appointed president Thomas Swann and Chief Engineer Benjamin Latrobe sent surveyors to chart a route through the mountains west of Cumberland, for a railroad to Wheeling that was located entirely in Virginia.
		and procedures to operate a mountain railroad in these early years, and a lot was found out by trial and error.
		For CSX it's the Mountain Subdivision of the Allegheny Division.
	mtnsub.org /mountain (767 words)

	IPPG: Newsletter 7/2000: The Backbone of Mountain Tourism
		Porters are the backbone of the mountain tourism in Nepal.
		Yet, they are suffering all kind of mountain hazards such as altitude sickness, snow blindness, hypothermia, frostbite etc. and there are some unnecessary deaths of the porter.
		Sometimes, the government builds roads, or some entrepreneurs operate helicopters to ship the goods to the mountain and the porters' employment is cut.
	www.ippg.net /newsletters/2000-07/index-3.html (453 words)

	The View from Backbone Trail - GreatOutdoors.com
		The beautiful, rugged mountain top known as Boney Mountain has long been a source of inspiration to the human eye.
		The mountain's highest point is Sandstone Peak, at 3,111 feet above sea level, also is the highest spot in the Santa Monica Mountains.
		On clear days, the Pacific Ocean and the Channel Islands dominate the view to the west, the Oxnard Plain is to the immediate north and the Topatopa Mountains are visible beyond that.
	www.greatoutdoors.com /published/camp/pacific/theviewfrombackbonetrail (702 words)

	GORP - Sullivan Ridge/ Backbone Trail - Mountain Biking the Santa Monicas
		It was then, however, that a previously off-limits section of the Backbone Trail was opened to bikes.
		The Backbone is a 70-mile treasure that crosses the spine of the Santa Monica Mountains all the way to Point Mugu.
		You'll only be sampling six rolling miles of the Backbone, but it's so regal that afterward you'll feel like a king—which is good, since on weekends you can often take in a polo match at Will Rogers State Historical Park before humping up Sunset back to your car.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/publishers/menasha/bik_sm2.htm (1060 words)

	Mountain Subdivision - 17 Mile Grade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Seventeen Mile Grade is a steep section of track on the Mountain Subdivision of 17 miles in length, hence its name, between the summit at Altamont and the small town of Piedmont at the base of Backbone Mountain.
		With most of the Mountain Subdivision's total tonnage moving east to Cumberland, it all has to be moved down Backbone Mountain which happens to rank among the top worst descending grades on the Eastern Seaboard.
		The section of the Mountain Subdivision east of Altamont once had four tracks: two main tracks, the passing siding between AM Tower and Wilson, along with the six mile long third main track between "AM" Tower and the old "HX" Tower to the east at Strecker.
	www.wvrail.railfan.net /17mile_grade.html (2094 words)

	Devils Backbone Mountain Bike Trail in Loveland, Colorado \|\| SINGLETRACKS.COM
		This trail area is three trails combined, the backbone, the wilds, and the hunters.
		This mountain biking guidebook for central Colorado concentrates on the rides in the valley in which Aspen and Snowmass Village...
		Review: The Backbone Trail is smooth singletrack rolling through the valley to the Wild Trail that is often steep and mostly rocky.
	www.singletracks.com /php/trail.php?id=1040 (586 words)

	Infoplease Search: backbone
		(Encyclopedia) Backbone Mountain, peak, 3,360 ft (1,024 m) high, NW Md., in the Allegheny Mts.; highest elevation...
		(Encyclopedia) Ezion-geber or Ezion-gaber[both: Heb.,=giant's backbone], ancient port, on the Gulf of Aqaba.
		(Encyclopedia) Land, People, and Economy The terrain is almost entirely mountainous, except for a narrow strip...
	www.infoplease.com /search?fr=ipce6&in=encyclopedia&x=0&y=0&query=backbone (192 words)

	Backbone Mountain - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		BACKBONE MOUNTAIN [Backbone Mountain] peak, 3,360 ft (1,024 m) high, NW Md., in the Allegheny Mts.; highest elevation in the state.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Backbone Mountain" at HighBeam.
		TENDING FARAWAY FLOCKS FOREIGN SHEPHERDS FORM THE BACKBONE OF THE SHEEP INDUSTRY IN THE MOUNTAIN WEST
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-backbone.html (239 words)

	Tucker County Cave Survey Trip Reports
		Much of that land has been posted by a hunting club--areas that might conceivably be accessible if we contact the clubs in question and ask them for permission to go on the land after all the hunting seasons are over.
		After breakfast at the Tucker County Inn, Don Humphrey, Ben Mirable, Doug Moore and I went up to Close Mountain Road on Backbone Mountain to try to relocate some caves that were originally found by Ray Garton, John Sowers and Alan Carpenter in December of 1978--25 years ago.
		There is a relatively thin band of limestone that extends up from Rich Mountain in Randolph County and follows the eastern side of Laurel Mountain through Barbour County, Tucker County and on up into Preston County.
	www.caves.org /grotto/mongrotto/2003-tucker_county_survey.htm (2946 words)

	Potomac State Forest
		The Potomac State Forest, 11,535 acres situated between the towns of Oakland and Westernport and partially bordering the Potomac River, is reached from Maryland Routes 135 and 560.
		Mountain forests, streams and valleys make up nearly 12,000 acres in Potomac State Forest.
		Another high point in the forest is the rock outcropping near the intersection of Maryland Route 135 and Walnut Bottom Road which overlooks a portion of Potomac State Forest, Savage River State Forest and Crabtree Creek.
	www.dnr.state.md.us /publiclands/western/potomacforest.html (536 words)

	Maryland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The disconformable contact with the underlying red shales and sandstones of the Mauch Chunk Formation lies within 100 meters west of the summit ridge, which represents part of the Catskill delta, deposited as sediments eroded from mountains formed by the Acadian Orogeny along the eastern margin of Laurentia.
		The still older Devonian Jennings marine shale is exposed in the valley to the west at Mountain Lake Park, in the center of the eroded crest of an anticline.
		Backbone Mountain is part of a long linear ridge held up by east-dipping resistant rocks on the east flank of an anticline.
	www.unh.edu /esci/maryland.html (272 words)

	Longsheng Tour: Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces
		The Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces are the culmination of both the profound wisdom and strenuous labor of the Zhuang people.
		It is said, 'Where there is soil, there is a terrace', be it in the valley, with swift flowing river to the mountains summit with its swirling cloud cover, or from bordering verdant forest to the cliff walls.
		Even though the Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces is large, it is made up of numerous patches no more than 1 mu (it is a traditional unit of area in China, currently call shimu) (about 0.16 acres).
	www.travelchinaguide.com /attraction/guangxi/longsheng/dragon.htm (513 words)

	The Republican Newspaper-Online Edition -- Garrett County, Maryland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The issue of proposed industrial-size windpower facilities was the topic of heated discussion during a recent meeting at the Pleasant Valley Community Center, which one day could be dwarfed by dozens of huge wind turbines, each taller than a football field, tentatively slated to march along the ridgeline of nearby Backbone Mountain.
		Tribbey addressed that sentiment when he took to the podium to say, "The Friends of Backbone Mountain was formed out of frustration; by living here for 25 years I thought we could take our concerns to the commissioners and they would listen and act.
		When I look at the mountain, I see the natural view; when I look at wind turbines, I see the hand of man. I prefer the natural view," Tribbey concluded.
	www.therepublicannews.com /article.asp?id=642 (1550 words)

	Battle Summary: Devil's Backbone, AR
		James G. Blunt ordered Col. William Cloud to continue in pursuit of the Confederate forces that had withdrawn from Fort Smith and were chased to Old Jenny Lind.
		The Rebels turned on Cloud and skirmished with him at the base of Devil’s Backbone.
		Regrouping, the Union forces, with the help of artillery, advanced again and forced the Confederates to retire in disorder to Waldron.
	www.cr.nps.gov /hps/abpp/battles/ar009.htm (149 words)

	Devil's Backbone - a reply from CO Open Land - Mtbr.com Forums
		We are not considering closing the Devil's Backbone to mountain bikes.
		The west side of the "Backbone" loop is already closed to bikes.
		mountain bikers have reduced options hikers/horseman are not restricted.
	forums.mtbr.com /showthread.php?t=44786 (4319 words)

	Backbone Mt. 4/6/03
		I called the state forest office that had jurisdiction and spoke to Sue, who told me that we could go there, that it was open, did not require the DNR Off Road sticker, and that we could use saws to clear fallen dead wood.
		Back on the road we hoofed it and made it to the trail head for Backbone Mt by 10:40.
		We took an old side trail that has not been traveled much and turned on a switchback to head up the side of the mountain.
	4x4icon.com /offroad/backbone_040603 (1100 words)

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