<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d154b069-e2aa-4d21-8196-32a5cc7cdcb1/190393C4-F897-4DBB-9AD2-2C19E7B1DBD2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/travel/escapes/02walden.html#" href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/travel/escapes/02walden.html#" style="font-size: 11px;">travel.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/travel/escapes/02walden.html#"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0"> Depth and Purity: Communing With Thoreau at the Pond </NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/travel/escapes/02walden.html#"><DIV class="byline">By JAY ATKINSON</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/travel/escapes/02walden.html#"><DIV class="timestamp">Published: October 2, 2009</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/travel/escapes/02walden.html#"><P>Concord, Mass.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/travel/escapes/02walden.html#">I ARRIVE at <A title="" href="http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/north-america/united-states/massachusetts/concord/29776/walden-pond-state-reservation/attraction-detail.html?inline=nyt-classifier">Walden Pond State Reservation</A> here just after sunrise, recalling that a certain local resident named Thoreau once wrote that “morning brings back the heroic ages.” Only a few cars are scattered across the lot — funky foreign rustbuckets adorned with yoga stickers or a little plastic hula girl perched on the dashboard. A thermometer attached to one of the outbuildings records the temperature at 55 degrees. Beside a dented brown Toyota a lean man with a wetsuit rolled down to his waist is performing a handstand, his body straight and still, feet pointed at the lightening sky. On this brisk late-summer morning, it seems I’ve entered the world of alt exercise, where the iron will of the endurance athlete merges with flights of Thoreau-like contemplation. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/190393C4-F897-4DBB-9AD2-2C19E7B1DBD2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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