Field Notes
A Fortnight in a Shepherd's Hut on Skye
Two weeks above Glen Brittle in late May, with the Cuillin Ridge across the glen and a cast-iron stove burning birch from the croft below.
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Field Notes
First-person field journals, dawn at a tarn, one week in a fire lookout, three days alone on a small loop.
Field Notes
Four Days in a Cabin Without Power on Isle Royale
At the McCargoe Cove shelter on the north shore of Lake Superior's largest island, with wolves audible somewhere across the harbor at 2 a.m.
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Five Mornings at a Blind on the Platte
Sandhill crane staging on the central Nebraska river in late March, from a Rowe Sanctuary blind, with a thermos and a notebook.
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Two Nights in a Bothy on Rannoch Moor
At Loch Chiarain, three peat-dark miles from the West Highland Way, with one box of matches and a slate roof that does not entirely keep out the rain.
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Three Days Alone on a 28-Mile Loop in the Wind Rivers
The Cirque of the Towers from the Big Sandy trailhead in the third week of July, a route some walk in a day and others should not walk at all.
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Dawn at Image Lake, North Cascades
A single morning at 6,050 feet in the Glacier Peak Wilderness, with Glacier Peak reflected in nine acres of still water at 5:42 a.m.
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Spring on the Long Trail, Day by Day
Eleven days northbound on Vermont's spine in the second week of May, with mud to the knee and the first wood thrush of the season.
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One Week in the Desolation Fire Lookout
Seven days at 6,050 feet above the North Cascades, with a Forest Service radio, a pair of binoculars, and a small ledger of clouds.