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Gary Spangler's avatar

Thank you so much, Erik, for sharpening my memories of a 7 day/6 night trek in the backcountry of Baxter State Park, home to Katahdin. Fall, 1980. Then a party of two could reserve an entire site, which afforded the silence and solitude of which you spoke.

No cell service, of course. The very few we passed seemed intent on solitude as well. Of course I delighted in reading of your lived experience, knowing that such conditions still exist. Nonpareil.

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Janet L. Cucharo's avatar

"The timeless ache of a million nights" "The comforts and constraints of civilization"

What great lines. I can smell the wood smoke in that cabin and that wonderful scent of a woodland walk.

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