Backpacker – August 2019
JULY/AUGUST 2019 BACKPACKER.COM 77 No. 46 FIND THIRTEEN FALLS. Pemigewasset Wilderness, NH THIS DEEP-WOODS SANCTUARY along Franc ...
JULY/AUGUST 2019 78 BACKPACKER.COM AS IT TURNS OUT, you needn’t leave Colorado to find a desert wil- derness chock-full of redro ...
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JULY/AUGUST 2019 BACKPACKER.COM 81 An obscure peak in the High Sierra preserves the legacy of a beloved ranger and beckons more ...
WE WERE ON A CROSS-COUNTRY ROUTE, ascending a gentle g ully, when R ick Sa nger— or “Ra nger R ick,” as he was known for nea rly ...
PHOTO BY NOLAN NITSCHKE single trace of Randy had been found, not even a footprint. I followed the disappearance from day one, h ...
JULY/AUGUST 2019 84 BACKPACKER.COM near Mt. Whitney that’s never been named,” he told me. “People are starting to call it Mt. Mo ...
PHOTOS BY (CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT) RICK SANGER; JOHN DITTLI; GENE ROSE Of course, nothing can prevent people from calling a peak wh ...
JULY/AUGUST 2019 86 BACKPACKER.COM of whom recommended, “just don’t think about the backcountry” and “watch a lot of kitten vide ...
PHOTOS BY JOHN DITTLI As a young ranger, Randy wrote about his relationship with the outdoors while on patrol, and now, as Rick ...
JULY/AUGUST 2019 88 BACKPACKER.COM said, “you’re unwrapping the view—it’s not a rewa rd for your effor ts. It ’s a g if t.” I’d ...
PHOTO BY JOHN DITTLI for wilderness rangers is like ending a love story. Eventually, they all must stop— bodies give out, partne ...
ha ndf u l of times, in lit tle more tha n w ithered clumps, because I tended to visit the high country in September and October ...
PHOTOS BY RICK SANGER was still grieving, not for Randy, but for this place. He needed the summit more than any of us that day. ...
NewRiverGorge Turbulence AND PEACE. IN SOME STRANGE HARMONY. ...
WVtourism.com How to explain the feeling of calm that can coexist with the churn of a raging river? You are tossed and turned, y ...
PHOTOS BY TK JULY/AUGUST 2019 94 BACKPACKER.COM L O S T IN SPACE ...
JULY/AUGUST 2019 BACKPACKER.COM 95 PHOTOS BY TK Af ter squeezing through narrow chasms on the 2-mile Slot Canyon Trail in Califo ...
PHOTO BY TK JULY/AUGUST 2019 96 BACKPACKER.COM tk caption SILENCE A N D THE UNIVERSE 1 2 5 3 4 6 7 Mooned Stars shine brightest ...
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