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No Ordinary Day » Hikers Larry and Donna Duckworth and Amy Campbell, from left, grasp hands with Darryl Campbell and Emily Barnes, not pictured, to see if they could link arms around the base of a massive poplar more than 100 feet tall on the Poplar Cove Loop hiking trail in the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest near Robbinsville. The 3,800-acre tract is home to trees more than 400 years old and is one of the few Western North Carolina forests that have been spared from logging. After changing hands among several logging companies, the forest was purchased and preserved by the federal government in the early 1930s. It is said that loggers saved the cove for last because they so admired the forest’s giant timber. ‘We were here once before and couldn’t reach,’ said Larry Duckworth, who was visiting the trail from Eastern Tennessee. ‘This time we brought Emily. Since we had five, we were able to reach all the way around.’

Hikers Larry and Donna Duckworth and Amy Campbell, from left, grasp hands with Darryl Campbell and Emily Barnes, not pictured, to see if they could link arms around the base of a massive poplar more than 100 feet tall on the Poplar Cove Loop hiking trail in the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest near Robbinsville. The 3,800-acre tract is home to trees more than 400 years old and is one of the few Western North Carolina forests that have been spared from logging. After changing hands among several logging companies, the forest was purchased and preserved by the federal government in the early 1930s. It is said that loggers saved the cove for last because they so admired the forest's giant timber. 'We were here once before and couldn't reach,' said Larry Duckworth, who was visiting the trail from Eastern Tennessee. 'This time we brought Emily. Since we had five, we were able to reach all the way around.'

Hikers Larry and Donna Duckworth and Amy Campbell, from left, grasp hands with Darryl Campbell and Emily Barnes, not pictured, to see if they could link arms around the base of a massive poplar more than 100 feet tall on the Poplar Cove Loop hiking trail in the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest near Robbinsville. The 3,800-acre tract is home to trees more than 400 years old and is one of the few Western North Carolina forests that have been spared from logging. After changing hands among several logging companies, the forest was purchased and preserved by the federal government in the early 1930s. It is said that loggers saved the cove for last because they so admired the forest’s giant timber. ‘We were here once before and couldn’t reach,’ said Larry Duckworth, who was visiting the trail from Eastern Tennessee. ‘This time we brought Emily. Since we had five, we were able to reach all the way around.’

Miriam Tuovila, 80, of Yorktown, Va., emerges from the water as she completes the first leg of the Triangle Triathlon at Lake Crabtree County Park in Morrisville. The race consisted of a 750-meter swim, a 15-mile bike ride and a 5-kilometer run. Tuovila completed the event in less than 2 hours and 15 minutes. (The best time was 1 hour and 29 seconds, and the best women's time was 1 hour, 10 minutes.) 'I'm just trying to show that old women can do it, too,' said Tuovila, who started competing in triathlons at 63. 'It's like oiling a machine; if you don't exercise, it gets rusty.'
Pi Kappa Alpha members, alumni and friends party in what is thought to be the world's largest Hatteras-style hammock at the fraternity's house at N.C. State University. They gathered for the eighth annual Brian Cardini Volleyball Tournament in memory of a fraternity brother who died in a car wreck in 1996. The rope hammock, which measures 38 foot long by 12 feet wide and is load tested to hold 8,000 pounds, was donated to the fraternity by a hammock company to replace a smaller hammock that was stolen a year ago. 'When our son went here to school here the hammock was a big deal' said Cardini's mother, Jane Cardini. 'We have a lot of pictures of Brian and his friends where this hammock is.' Proceeds from the tournament will benefit the Brian Cardini scholarship fund.

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