Autumn in the North Country: The Wilderness Experience

“The wilderness experience positions the great questions we face in life within the context of our utter smallness. Only our acceptance, our willingness to go where we are small and where we need to respect the power and objectivity of nature makes it possible for us to experience a hero’s journey.” Ann Bancroft, Arctic and Antarctic explorer and co-author of No Horizon is So Far

The Deep Crevasses on the Cougar Divide leading to Mount Baker.

Table Mountain in the foreground and Mt. Shuksan in clouds behind it.

Glaciers and Crevasses

Rocks along the walk to Cougar Divide

“There is a cleanliness, a breadth and sweep and strength in the north, a purifying realization that one is living close to the fundamental elements of life. Yes, the north has a spell.” Canoeing with the Cree