(not necessarily in that order)
These posts are all about finding the inside on the outside. If you are interested in the dynamic dance of the physical and metaphysical worlds, I offer a humble choreography of words.
On the surface, this is about backpacking to the same wilderness lakes over and over again, like binge-watching a movie you treasure. In the wholly absorbed manner of a whirling dervish, I have danced in ecstatic circles to exactly the same tune for over 50 years. The things I have learned by immersing myself in a monogamous intimacy of landscape over and over have changed my life. My life has also changed the things I have learned.
The blog is organized into chapters — each representing a single backpacking trip — with meaningful interludes between them. So far, I have made 21 separate trips to the same group of lakes in the Trinity Alps, and each one has taught me something different, because I was a different person. Perhaps it was for the same reason that you can’t step into the same river twice.
If you are interested in opening a window to the soul, dear reader, I invite you to gaze inwardly with me as I describe what can only be called a love affair with a place. Click here to get started!
Happy trails!
Don