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6 hours agoOn Trails is a wandering tale that blends hiking, science, and history
The journey blends hiking experiences with varied topics, shifting tones, and reflections on wilderness, language, nature, and colonialism.
Then the Goethe Lakes, Goethe Peak and what's left of the Goethe Glacier. This is the Glacial Divide, beyond which lies Evolution Valley, where I hiked as a 20-something on the John Muir Trail - a blissful 26 days beyond the range of communication, during which we carried everything we needed on our backs, along with a few things we didn't really need but wanted anyway. No one had cellphones back then.