Recently, I went on a six-day backpacking excursion in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park. I was invited by some friends I met through a Sierra Club backpacking trip I took last year. The record snowpack put a crimp on the…
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“Go West. Paradise is there…”
“Go West./ Paradise is there./ You’ll have all that you can eat/ of milk and honey over there.” So begins Natalie Merchant‘s song “San Andreas Fault,” which describes a young ingénue’s flight westward to California in search of fortune and…
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Posted in Backpacking, Books, Visual Media
Posted in Backpacking, Books, Visual Media
The Ambulant Scholar 