Why Chris McCandless Disappeared Into the Wild
Chris McCandless was an ambitious man with an aching need for adventure and a stubborn penchant for self-reliance.
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The Cost of Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
The cost of thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail can be more expensive than you think, or it can be dirt cheap. It’s all up to the hike you want to have, and the preparations you make.
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Nature in Fiction: Tolkien’s Middle-earth
J.R.R. Tolkien created Middle-earth in order to escape the modern world and its increasing mechanization.
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PCT Thru-hike #12: Trail Depression
Racing up Mosquito Mountain and escaoing from Mammoth Lakes!
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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Argument for Nature
Humanity has become distracted by its own creations to the point where it has forgotten about nature.
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