With Me On the Trail

I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson On a bottom book shelf in my bedroom is a collection of books that have always been precious to me. Most books are precious to me, but these books are especially so, and I keep them there so that if my house is ever beset by wildfire andContinue reading “With Me On the Trail”

Something to Touch and Hold

(I)t’s nice to have something you can hold and actually touch. 9-Year old Lucia Olson, speaking of her neighborhood newspaper When I first started hiking alone in my early twenties, I was much more miserly about the weight of my pack than I would become in future years on the trail. Equipment was substantially heavierContinue reading “Something to Touch and Hold”