In the High Trips, for about thirty years at the start of the 20th century, the Sierra Club as a mountaineering club peaked, surely. On those brilliantly organized journeys, as many as 200 people at time went into the High Sierras, having committed to a walk of a minimum of two hundred miles, over several weeks of hiking. Though theContinue reading “The Sierra Club High Trips and why women liked them”
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David Brower sees a UFO
Gotta love an autobiography in which a man will confess to everything he's ever seen, even if it makes him sound a little crazy. Here's David Brower, in his delightful autobiography For Earth's Sake (l990): When I was eight, walking home one day [in Berkeley], I happened to look up at the sky and sawContinue reading “David Brower sees a UFO”
The BP oil spill, according to David Brower
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it. David Brower (Of course, he said that long ago…it's just that it's still true.) The video of the spill (from BP) is what I can't forget:
Kit Stolz 