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The weather outside is.....

cold, fun and fantastic, and inside it's warm, cozy and delightful.

Whether you are an outdoor enthusiast or someone who enjoys warmth and relaxation you are sure to find something to brighten your winter blues in the January / February 2010 issue of Up North Magazine.

All this and much more in the new issue of Up North Magazine.

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An exclusive article also appears in this month's issue.

VISION: The Story of LifeFlight’s Revolutionary New Plan

This is a story about rewards in life and people who live their life in service to others. Jon Roebuck is one of those people. He likes his friends to call him JR. He graciously tells everyone that the JR doesn’t stand for Junior. He’s a Communications Specialist at MedComm, the organization that provides communication service to LifeFlight of Maine, Although he has a background in Law Enforcement, in 2003 he began a new career path, one that would lead him to the creation of a new visionary concept in emergency medical transportation. In 2005 he began to think about ways to improve emergency medical access to accident scenes in Maine. JR saw a need for a faster way to get medical help to remote areas. He now heads up an effort, called the Remote Access Project, which seeks to establish safe landing zones (LZs) for the LifeFlight helicopters along Maine’s extensive, remote, recreational trail system. In 2008 he would begin to implement this concept, and in less than a year, 9 different State Of Maine organizations and agencies would be part of a voluntary cooperativeinterrelated effort unlike any other in the United States or Canada. The response state wide was amazing, jumping from 50 LZ’s in the winter of 09, during the first few days of the program, to 120 LZ’s by spring of the same year!

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Fran Emmons enjoyed a good taste of winter and gets us "Back in the Saddle" with a feature on at Saddleback Mountain and then shows us what it is like to be pampered at the Appalachian Mountain Club's Highland Center at Crawford Notch. Kids, young and old, enjoy winter whether it is skating, skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing. Fran gets the scoop on Winter Kids Passport Program for youths in grades five to seven.

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Garth Trickey takes a ride on the ICON Railroad and we get an up-close look at railroading in Maine in this "100 Years Ago In..." feature. Not everything is white in winter, some places are "Going Green" such as the New England Outdoors Centers' "Green Cabins" in Millinocket. We'll find out how these cabins are making use of 'green technology' inside and out.

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Shelagh Talbot discovers how an old mink stole is transformed into a cute an cuddly teddybear.

Tom Sears shares his photographic artistry with us in this issue and our "Out of the Woodwork" feature takes us behind the scenes of some artistic woodworking and the folks that truly 'go out on a limb' to get their hand-crafted furniture delivered.

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