Outdoors

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. -- Crews resumed the search for one of two teenage hikers missing in Southern California's Cleveland National Forest, the morning after her male companion was found dehydrated and disoriented in heavy brush.

Running into a bison in the dark is not most people’s idea of fun.

It is noon on a blustery and snowy Friday in March. One man is rubbing anti-perspirant on his feet in a tent to help stave off blisters. Surrounding him are runners, looking rather nonchalant about what is about to happen.

“I go back and forth from being super intrigued and excited, and then just wanting to throw up and go home and go back to bed,” said Stephanie Gardner, of Roy.

LONDON — Britain’s Prince Harry is returning to the United States — but this time he’s skipping Las Vegas.

The 28-year-old prince will travel to the U.S. East Coast as well as Denver and Colorado Springs, Colorado, to support veterans’ charities and get in a bit of polo.

Harry, a longtime supporter of charities that rehabilitate war veterans, will attend several events at the 2013 Warrior Games, a competition in which veteran athletes from both Britain and the United States take part.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Gov. Gary Herbert has signed a bill creating a state office dedicated to outdoor recreation.

When Great Salt Lake flooded and reached its highest level on record in the mid-1980s, inundating Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, it took a small army of volunteers to restore it so the public could enjoy it once again.

Leading that army was Bob Ebeling, who has dedicated decades and thousands of hours to maintaining the refuge as one of the best places in Utah for nature and bird lovers.

OGDEN — The recognition keeps pouring in for the Ogden area as an outdoor lover’s paradise, as another major publication has listed the city as one of the premier up-and-coming ski towns in the country.

The most recent issue of National Geographic Adventure names Ogden as one of its top 10 emerging ski towns in North America, placing it alongside the likes of Reno, Nev., Driggs, Idaho, and Durango, Colo., among others.

JOHANNESBURG — Toiling with shovels, wheelbarrows and bare hands, about 300 workers removed 6,000 tons of stones and other debris from a vast stretch of desert in a desolate corner of South Africa over the past two years. If all goes well, it will become the place where a British-led team tries to breaks the world land-speed record.

“It will be a brisk ride,” said Andy Green, the man who plans to break his own record in 2015, using a vehicle powered by rocket and warplane technology. His goal? Reaching 1,610 kilometers (1,000 miles) an hour.

The track of hard-packed earth at the Hakskeen Pan, tucked between Namibia and Botswana, is 1.1 kilometers (0.7 miles) wide and 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) long. It could rival Black Rock Desert in Nevada, where Green clocked 1,228 kilometers (763 miles) an hour and broke the sound barrier in 1997, and the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah as the premier temple of speed in the world.