The Franklin bros leading the charge in the early morning light on Mt. Baker. With a late start the night before, heavy ass packs, and a ‘let’s just go and see what happens’ attitude we managed to just sneak it in before the crevasses opened up too much.
"In an increasingly overpopulated and regulated and rule-filled world, we have these vast spaces where your children can go swimming in the creek or a river. Where you can go hunting with your daughter. Or you could go fishing, and be about as free as a person can be in this world. The freedom to experience your own land, your own dirt, your own mountains, your own rivers, these are cornerstones of the (North) American experience"
- Hal Hering, in a film about America’s public lands by @patagonia
In an interview with the astronauts of the International Space Station, one crew member remarked that: “an earth in crisis is still an earth worth returning to”.
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Happy Earth Day from some of my favourite places.
Arctic light is a special thing. I had no idea what to expect, I just knew that there would be less daylight so far north above the arctic circle. It was amazing to live in a perpetual state of sunrise or sunset, which stretched on for hours as the sun just barely rose over the horizon and peaks for a few short hours a day.
