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“Wilderness Music” an excerpt from Bill Sherwonit’s new book

February 18th, 2010

“Wilderness Music” an excerpt from Bill Sherwonit’s new book

Bill Sherwonit | February 18, 2010

Wilderness Music, excerpted from
Changing Paths: Travels and Meditations in Alaska’s Arctic Wilderness
©2010 by Bill Sherwonit
At age 50, nature writer and wilderness advocate Bill Sherwonit went on the longest backpack of his life: fifty miles in two weeks, across mostly untrailed wilderness in America’s remotest and arguably wildest parkland, Gates of the Arctic National Park and [...]

The Pik Dunes

RKahn | February 15, 2010

Rain all night…the clouds are down on the lake…It is a cold grey morning…Patches of blue sky breaking through until the days changes in character…Bright sun, light wind, blue sky…the grasses glowing yellow…Pools of water gathered in the folds of the dunes…the hum of the land is loud in my ears…There are no caribou to [...]

Colville I – Alaskan Arctic River

RKahn | February 4, 2010

by Richard Kahn
There are no geese on the Colville…But, there are loons, and rough legged hawks, and peregrine falcons. We sat beneath a cliff as the peregrine screeched at us from above. A second falcon joined the first and together they screamed at us, warning us away from their nest. As the second falcon landed [...]