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Women on the prowl

“If there’s a woman in America who can disembowel an animal and avoid chipping a fingernail,” it’s author and travel guide Georgia Pellegrini, said Jeff Gordinier in The New York Times. The style-conscious former chef and investment banker runs group trips called Girl Hunter Adventure Getaways aimed at professional women looking to get in touch with their primitive selves. During a recent getaway in Montana, participants learned to handle rifles and gut game birds while engaging in a bit of “Thelma and Louise–ish” bonding, sipping Bloody Marys over picnic lunches and retiring to cabins equipped with plush beds and satellite TV. Girl Hunter clients, Pellegrini says, “want to feel feminine” while turning predatory. But it’s a balance: While teaching the group how to pluck a pheasant, Pellegrini at one point dipped her fingers into the bird’s blood and smeared it like war paint on the shooter’s cheekbones.

Walkable Salt Lake City

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In a city known for its lack of street life, the 9th and 9th neighborhood “comes across as a pleasant surprise,” said Stephen Jermanok in The Washington Post. Named after its main intersection, the crossing of 900 East and 900 South streets, the area has recently been revitalized by an influx of young people attracted by the handsome Victorians and two-story bungalows. Elsewhere in town, broad streets kill foot traffic, but in the 9th and 9th you’ll find sidewalks “humming on a warm afternoon with people sipping lattes or strolling to Middle Eastern or Thai restaurants.” There’s also Pago, the “acclaimed” farm-to-table establishment, famed for its kale Caesar salad with pickled fennel. Nearby, you’ll find independent retail shops and an art-house cinema where shuttle buses pick up skiers heading to the Alta ski resort. Salt Lake City “has always been the gateway to the mountains of Utah.” Today it’s becoming a place to stay.