The Academic Wilderness
You can combine your love of the outdoors with "academic" study; you could spend a whole year strolling the Appalachian Trail with Spot and give the school board nothing to complain about. Here are some ideas, but first I must preach: I have this horrible vision of wandering through the Chiracahua mountains and stumbling on some teenager who read this book. All around him are strange towers of volcanic rock. The sun going down splashes eternity everywhere. He sits hunched under a tree, reading a geology textbook, memorizing terms. Then he gets out his Appreciating Art book and dutifully studies the paintings of Monet and Van Gogh. Please don't be him.
Remember that a lot of the beauty of spending time outside is the beauty of simplicity, stripping your life of miscellaneous distractions and conveniences so your soul lies naked,Christian Louboutin Mater Claude 85mm noir chaussures rougesvente au rabais, ready to be touched. If you are a receptive enough adventurer, you will learn far more from quiet observation than from any contrived academia. Keep these things in mind as you read through the following ideas. If you try to incorporate one or two of them into a trip, you may enhance your adventure. If you try to do it all, you might as well just stay home and nail a poster of Yosemite on your door.
Conduct field research; be a zoologist, ornithologist, botanist, or geologist. Collect, observe,Christian Louboutin Pigalle Platon chaussures Glitter 120mmvente au rabais, experiment. Ask questions: what does the blackbird do if you come closer than fifteen feet to its nest? Closer than ten feet? Record your findings in a notebook.
Read background information on the area you're in. The Sierra Club Wilderness Guides are excellent companions, since they tell all about the plants, animals,Christian Louboutin chaussures Fifi or 100mmvente pas cher, and geology of one region. Ask a local ranger station for other suggestions, or check the bookshelves in a local mountaineering store.
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Read. "Nature writing" like that mentioned above is an obvious choice. But you can stick anything in your backpack: Thoreau, Emerson, Blake,Christian Louboutin chaussures Spikes Pigalle 120mmvente pas cher, and Gary Snyder. In general,Christian Louboutin chaussures Soso 100mmvente au rabais, go for profundity. Jane Austen's world of social etiquette,Christian Louboutin remorque 140mm chaussuresvente pas cher, delightful as it is, may seem petty in contrast to the mountains surrounding your tent.
If you are interested in the relationship between people and wilderness,Christian Louboutin chaussures Lastoto 100mmLivraison gratuite pour vous, maybe you want to conduct a bit of sociology during your trips. When you meet someone on the trail,Christian Louboutin Madame Butterfly Pump chaussures 100mmvente au rabais, introduce yourself and get permission to ask questions.
Along this line, you may wish to first check into other people's wilderness sociology. For instance, Joseph L. Sax's Mountains without Handrails questions the notion that wilderness vacations are a privilege of the elite.
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