by Brian O'Riley | Sep 14, 2023 | Fireside Talks
“I wonder what it must be like to spend a few days at Guesthouse 102, I wonder if Dr. Youngs could post pictures of the inside of the building?” A Wilderness student asked me this question after reading my talk, “A Polar Bear’s Death.”...
by Brian O'Riley | Sep 14, 2023 | Fireside Talks, National Park
We have been talking a lot about bears lately. Most recently in “Where’s the Park, Papa?” Patrick McManus tells us: The park bears aren’t what they used to be either. Most of the bears you see along the roads look as if they’ve spent the past five...
by Brian O'Riley | Sep 14, 2023 | Fireside Talks
Last week we considered various ways of “experiencing” an indigenous culture in the wilderness: 1) through a report by John Muir on a journey in Alaska, 2) through my touristy visit to the Hazda in Tanzania, and 3) in Joel Bushcraft’s much more...
by Brian O'Riley | Sep 14, 2023 | Fireside Talks
OK, listen up! “I care to live only to entice people to ____________________________.” Complete this statement. If you say “look at Nature’s loveliness,” you are quoting John Muir correctly. But if you say, “show the superiority of the...
by bill-youngs | Sep 14, 2023 | Fireside Talks
Herewith three wilderness-related stories occasioned by three weeks I spent during fall, 2011, at Acadia National Park in Maine — examples of some of my own reflections on life close to the wilderness. 1. On the Edge of a “Northeaster” — I was...
by bill-youngs | Sep 14, 2023 | Fireside Talks, National Park
By Motorboat in Ross Lake National Recreation Area and North Cascades National Park During the fall of 2012 I spent several days at Ross Lake with my son, Ted, and my granddaughter, Oona, age four. Reviewing a video I made of the trip now several years later, I find...
