Our apologies for a lack of weekly updates in your inboxes last week. Our staff, for once, managed to abandon our beloved computers and enjoy the joys...and fears of hiking in the mountains. In fact, such adventures were made even more appropriate with Nicholas Kristof's recent column encouraging his readers to go take a hike. His 10 wise hiking tips fail to address the danger of illegal Ukrainian marmot-hunters with shotguns, an unexpected circumstance I stumbled upon in the Cascade Mountains of Washington. With a breath of fresh mountain air, and somewhat safely rejuvenated (only a few polite bear encounters), we are glad to be back and blogging.