“Riding over Marston Pass, the view was so huge, so empty yet full, that it was unsettling. My eyes travelled outward—as far as I could see were jagged peaks, rounded mountains, flat-topped buttes and wide valleys below.” Julianne Baker Awe: 1 a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder. 2 an …
Author: Julianne
Hiker, backpacker, skier, yoga instructor, reader, writer, teacher, student, passionate about nature....
The Best Right Place
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” Anita Desai August in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has been …
Younts Peak Take 2
"The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom." Theodore Roosevelt Harry S. Yount: the ‘father of park rangers’. Yellowstone: The river: 671-692? miles of undammed water (though there are 6 diversion dams that direct water into canals for irrigation) and …
Living in the Present
"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water." Loren Eiseley Yuval Noah Harari, the author of ‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind’, has said there is evidence that human brains are shrinking over large expanses of time because we need to remember less in order to survive. We look forward and …
Prayer for Wild Places
2016 Blog July 2 “The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, “What good is it?” If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we …
Writing the Wild 