Linda Jo Hunter worked as lead guide and assistant manager of Redoubt Bay Lodge in Alaska for four summer seasons. She has taken thousands of people to observe brown bears in their natural habitat. As a tracker and naturalist, she has been particularly interested in studying bears since 1993.
We have been camped on this remote Baja point for a month now. It is interesting how little a person needs to be happy. We shower in four gallons of water for two people and eat fish out of the sea. We spend days in the water and on the beach ever fascinated by the wind, tides and plentiful wildlife from scorpions to whales. But even more interesting is how much a human needs to be ...
A few weeks ago I stopped in a great independent book store in La Jolla California called D. G. Wills and found some great books in the stacks . . one of them was "My First Summer in the Sierra's" by John Muir. Written in 1896 it was a wonderful book of the way things were and the way they still are. . .some people want to save the environment from harm by living small and being aware ...
The person we rescued would never see us. She would never know what it was like to try and get to her on her an icy pinnacle, her potential grave, at midnight. She was unconscious for all of her rescue. She passed out on top of Beacon Rock in the Gorge one January night after drinking a whole bottle of rum and doing whatever drugs she and her boyfriend had with them. He couldn’t wake her. ...
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