9:42 a.m. on April 10, 2011 (EDT)
7:48 p.m. on April 10, 2011 (EDT)
For me, this will be a must see
8:03 p.m. on April 10, 2011 (EDT)
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I'm with Mike on this one. DVR is already set. Thanks for the heads-up Alicia.
12:19 a.m. on April 11, 2011 (EDT)
Thanks for the reminder! I "liked" it on facebook a couple of months ago and promptly forgot all about it. Can't miss this one.
8:47 a.m. on April 19, 2011 (EDT)
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Pretty good documetary. Beautiful scenery footage. My wife and I enjoyed it quite a bit.
1:54 p.m. on April 19, 2011 (EDT)
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Overall, it was very good. I was a bit disappointed at some of the things left out, but there is limited time to cover such a full life of such an influential person.
There were some rather glaring anachronisms, though. In a couple places where "Muir" was climbing a slab (in Tuolumne, for one, and on Ritter for another), he was wearing rock climbing shoes - don't think they had them at the time. For another, in Alaska, he and his Alaskan Native friend were in a very nice kevlar canoe (I couldn't quite make out the brand, though the shape of the emblem was vaguely familiar). Again, a few years out of date.
As a reader of Muir's writings since I was a kid, and a long-time Sierra Club member (plus living just across the SFBay from his home in Martinez, currently a California State Park), I was very familiar with most of the history. But there were a number of interesting items quite new to me. One was how much pushing his Eastern publishers were on getting him to complete his writings. The view in these parts has mostly been that he was the one out there leading the cause.
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