Quebec begins digital health record rollout as projected cost climbs to $2.5B
Quebec’s provincewide effort to digitize health records officially began Saturday, and the cost is going to be at least a billion dollars more than expected.
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Favorite outdoor stairway climbs completed to date

Identified below are this blog author’s favorite outdoor stairway climbs that have been completed to date. Each has its own individual attributes and aesthetics, whether it be the surrounding landscapes and scenery, a vast view at the top, or the narrowness of the climbing corridor. For purposes of this post, the terms stairs, stairways, and steps are used interchangeably. As more are completed, the post will be updated accordingly.

“A glorious vista is more enriching when it takes effort to get there.”

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The reward at the top of the Scalinata Salita Castello

Scalinata Salita Castello = 541 steps in Taormina, Italia (see the two images just below)

High Tower/Rockledge Stairs = 161 steps in Los Angeles (Hollywood Heights), California

High Tower Steps – to the left of the tower

Paramount Stairway = 220 steps in Los Angeles (Hollywood Heights), California

Sky Steps = 529 steps in Durango, Colorado

Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti a.k.a. “The Spanish Steps” (1725) = 135 steps in Roma, Italia

Scala dell’Arce Capitolina (1348) = 124 steps in Roma, Italia

View from the Scala dell’Arce Capitolina

Devil’s Head Lookout Station Stairway = 143 steps near Sedalia, Colorado

Seven Falls Stairway = 224 steps in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Stairs are hard to see against the stone backdrop at Seven Falls

Ironman Stairs = 155 steps in Bisbee, Arizona

View from atop the Ironman Stairs in Bisbee

The Alcove House Climb ~ 220 wooden ladder and stone steps in Bandolier National Monument, New Mexico

Climb to the Alcove House

Whitley Terrace Steps = 159 steps in Los Angeles (Whitley Heights), California

Whitley Terrace Steps

Washington Street Steps = 252 steps in Galena, Illinois

Rose Stairs = 151 steps in Bisbee, Arizona

Mayfield Stairs = 181 steps in Bisbee, Arizona

La Presa Steps = 181 steps in Los Angeles (Hollywood Heights), California

Walnut Creek Canyon Stairway = 237 steps in Flagstaff, Arizona

Theatre Stairs = 127 steps in Bisbee, Arizona

Laundry Stairs = 98 steps in Bisbee, Arizona

Mount Tom Dune Stairs = 101 steps in Indiana Dunes National Park

Mount Tom Dune Stairs

First Avenue Steps = ? steps in Jerome, Arizona

Jerome

Cardiff Hill/Twain Lighthouse Stairway = 244 steps in Hannibal, Missouri

Twain Lighthouse Steps

Gila Cliff Dwellings Stairs = 288 in Glia Cliff Dwellings National Monument, New Mexico


Hilarious sign at Gila Cliff Dwellings

Perley Stairs = 96 steps in Bisbee, Arizona

Hurley Park Stairways = 152 steps in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Avalanche Hill Steps = 392 steps in Boyne City, Michigan

Baldwin Hills Stairs = 282 steps in Los Angeles (Baldwin Hills), California

Baldwin Hills Steps

Band Shell Stairs = 73 steps in Bisbee, Arizona

Spalding Stairs = 78 steps in Bisbee, Arizona

Walsh Stairs = 98 steps in Bisbee, Arizona

Jetty Stairway = 55 steps in Redondo Beach, California

Challenge Hill Stair Climb = 200 steps in Denver (Castle Rock), Colorado

Challenge Hill

Monks Mound Stairway = 155 steps in Cahokia Mounds State Park, Illinois

Twain Avenue to N. Fifth Street Stairs ~ 35 steps in Hannibal, Missouri

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