Years ago on a canoe trip in Missouri, University of Mississippi Medical Center pediatrician Dr. Will Sorey took in the beauty of a spring-fed river — marred, however, by some things that can be ...

When summer vacation started, this was the place generations of Easton Area kids went to cool off. The longstanding tradition of swinging into the Bushkill Creek from a rope tied to a huge tree ended ...

Find your spot on the limb, at least three feet from the trunk, but not so far that it sags under your weight. Prepare your rope with an eye splice* to make a loop in one end. Toss the eye splice over ...

For decades people have stood on rocks above the Spokane River at Boulder Beach and pondered whether they should grab a rope hanging from a tree and swing their bodies over the water and let go. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A few days after a 23-year-old woman died from a rope swing accident at Folsom Lake, Sacramento County Regional Parks reminded ...

The Southwick Select Board problem-solving regarding the tree rope swings at Congamond Lake (“Board Starts Process to Take Down Rope Swing Trees Along North Pond,” The Westfield News, June 1) has left ...

WINTER HAVEN — For years, the Claussen brothers have spent their summers swinging from a rope into the waters of Lake Eloise in Winter Haven. Practically every weekend Matthias Claussen, 17, and ...