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March 20, 2022
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March 20, 2022
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April 7, 2024
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April 7, 2024
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"I need a palate cleanser after the last 'nature' writing nightmare that was World of Wonder."
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April 7, 2024
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1.61%
""A couple of miles downstream, our paths would diverge. I would join an artists' and writers' camp already there, spending a week with strangers, taking day hikes and talking around the campfire at night. This struck us both as a somewhat bizarre way to spend a week in the Sierra, but I was going to give it a try."
I agree. No jovial campfire chats for me."
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I agree. No jovial campfire chats for me."
April 8, 2024
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2.32%
"Always a trip to realize that plate tectonics was a paradigm shift that only happened in the 70s. By the time I was born in the 80s, it was taught as fact in elementary school. I didn¡¯t know it was such a recent shift until university."
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April 9, 2024
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6.07%
"I'm two generations younger than Robinson, and I'm faintly scandalized at the thought of hiking while high. Sometimes the fact that I'm a product of D.A.R.E. is painfully obvious. (Yet I feel compelled to point out that it's possible to feel ineffable wonder in nature without being on drugs.)"
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April 11, 2024
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9.64%
"If I hiked by myself in truly remote areas, I'd probably have a rambly monologue going, too."
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April 21, 2024
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12.5%
""His harsh upbringing left its mark on him, and it's his own testimony that accuses his father of brutality, laziness, and absorption in a version of religion without love."
Poor John Muir."
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Poor John Muir."
May 4, 2024
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19.11%
"Nope, still don't care about the memoir-y bits...though running away to the mountains rather than face the reality of a failing marriage sounds *exactly* like something I would do. XX folks: not necessarily better at talking about emotions."
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May 4, 2024
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20.36%
"I appreciate KSR's thoughtful discussion of place names and the argument for resuming the indigenous names for these places, as has been done with Denali (formerly Mt McKinley). "Owen's Valley itself was called Payahuunadu, "the land of flowing water." Yeah...maybe LA should also stop diverting so much water from this place."
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May 4, 2024
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20.71%
"Hey, this book just taught me how to say 'f--- your mother' in Cantonese: ŒÅÄã‹Œ". ŒÅ . My parents never taught me how to curse, even in Mandarin. I could have been fluent in Chinese expletives, if nothing else.
From the name "Tunemah Peak" - a very rough transcription of the Cantonese. KSR says it was possibly named by Chinese sheepherders who had to get their sheep down a very long and steep slope."
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From the name "Tunemah Peak" - a very rough transcription of the Cantonese. KSR says it was possibly named by Chinese sheepherders who had to get their sheep down a very long and steep slope."
