By etymology and tradition, wilderness is uncontrolled… Often the wild was beyond even the knowledge of man—mysterious, dark, risky and, in time, attractive for those reasons. –Roderick Nash

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many mountains moving:
seven days, over eighty-five miles, no people.
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“Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand– that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.” –Annie Dillard

strange trails