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Tag Archives: Native Americans
Climbing
Our muscles tighten and our lungs adjust, whether we seek the headwaters for trout because the lowlands have been flooded, or whether we lift our feet and pull with our arms along a skyline scramble for a special view that … Continue reading
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Tagged challenges, climbing, kettle, Kettle Creek, Native Americans, nature, oxbow, perspectives, poetry, Rapidan, wildness, writing
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Close Encounters of the Western Kind
Fortified by our recent finds in Yellowstone country, my wife and I continued on our homeward route through northern Wyoming, drawn by the geography and myths of the land, toward Devils Tower and South Dakota’s Badlands. I was looking forward, … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, Badlands, birds, close encounters, Devils Tower, geography, national monuments, Native Americans, nature, Rocky Mountain sheep, tourism, travel, wildlife
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Spectacle Pond
[The following is the first in a two-part series on a recent ramble through the Northeast Kingdom and the Green Mountain State (aka Vermont), with stops in the wild Nulhegan River Basin and, later, at the famed Battenkill. Stay tuned!] … Continue reading
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Tagged boreal forest, Island Pond, loons, Native Americans, nature, Northeast Kingdom, Nulhegan River, peace, photography, solitude, Spectacle Pond, travel, Vermont, walking
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Rivertop Rambles 