November / December 2009
EnCompass Magazine

• Features:
  • Mini Tour: Mountain Christmas
    A roundup of what’s happening over the holiday season in some of Colorado’s mountain towns.
    By Shelly Steig.
  • Epcot World Showcase
    Walking through the different “nations” at Epcot is like taking a trip around the globe, and it’s a shopper’s paradise too.
    By Janna Graber.
  • Wolves, Wilds and Winter
    A winter visit to Yellowstone reveals the very essence of wildness, without the crowds.
    By Dan Leeth.
  • Colorado Explorer
    Your Colorado guide to attractions, events, dining, shopping and all the rest this state has to offer. This issue’s featured activity: dogsledding.
    By Linda DuVal.
  • My Colorado
    Special Colorado memories by our readers. This issue: "Thanksgiving, Colorado-style."
    By Cindy Strandvold.
  
  
  Web Extras
  
  Colorado Strongholds
  More than 70 fortresses were built in Colorado for trade or defense, beginning with Pike’s Stockade in 1807 and ending with Fort Logan in 1889. Many no longer stand, but others have been preserved or reconstructed for modern visitors.
  By Shelly Steig.
  
  Visiting the Atacama Desert, Chile
  In the world’s driest place, the desert starts with a vengeance. Care must be taken on the road to Calama – in the late 1980s, landmines were laid, and now no one can remember exactly where.
  By Terence Baker.


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