nearo
n.— «Nearo—n. near-zero; a short day of hiking.» —“Glossary Of Hiker Terms” by Norma Jean DeVico Times (Trenton, New Jersey) Sept. 18, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Sean in Oneonta, New York, says that when he was growing up in New Jersey, his family would pile in the car and set off on a surprise adventure, whether a short distance or long, and the kids would be told only that they were going on Buxtehude...
Amid court-ordered busing in the 1970s, a middle-school teacher tried to distract her nervous students on the first day of class with this strange assignment: find a monarch caterpillar. The result? A memorable lesson in the miracle of metamorphosis...