Tuesday, July 14, 2009

News at Eleven (Back Page): Jack [Kerouac] was a hardy hiker

and old football player, who had no problem laying on the ground and going to sleep, and after Tam I talked him into applying for his famous fire lookout job. Allen [Ginsberg] was thought of as one of these wimpy Easterners, but he and I did a ropes, ice axes, and crampons climb of Glacier Peak in the North Cascades in Washington state one time. [--Gary Snyder]

from CounterPunch: Walking Mount Tam

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