Re: Darwin and adventure
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Bill S: I first read about Norman Clyde in a book by ???, titled something like "Tramping Thru the World". The author wore little wool felt caps and on the cover he stands in shorts and hiking gear.
He wrote some chapters on Clyde and his peculiar heavy-packing life, the old cars they'd use to get them to the Sierra mountains, the "hospital" Norman went to when he felt sick(sitting in a lawn chair by a high mountain lake), his first ascents(Clyde Peak), and other great stories. Even his death in a nursing home much later.
I remember the trump-line packs he used, Trapper Nelson? And the books, the cast iron skillets, the extra leather boots, et.al. To me, Norman Clyde is today the perfect antidote-symbol to the current Ultralight fanaticism, so I guess he's one of my heroes . . .
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