In Search of Wildness

An English teacher's Alaskan sojourn
Funded in part by a William C. Friday Foundation Fellowship Grant

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From mid-June through late July 2006, I posted my thoughts and photos to this blog in journal fashion. Unlike Chris McCandless, though, I welcomed the opportunity to engage in dialogue across thousands of miles. While blogging from the edge of the Tongas subarctic rainforest in Alaska, I encouraged readers to drop me a line using the comment function. Mail from home is always welcome, and I relished messages from family, friends, students, colleagues, and total strangers.

I traveled to Alaska to further understand and experience nature without human influence. I read literature about the wild as I explored nature in a purer form than we normally can. Alaska, despite its development has not been tamed. In such an environment, we can learn a lot about nature, ourselves, and our society. We all share a common root in the wild and a common future relationship with the natural world as we together choose to sustain it.

Friday, July 21, 2006

Blue Ice

Today, Alaskans Cathy and Erin Connor (geologist, biologist; mother, daughter) took the Wildness class on a "fiesty" hike in the rain. Beginning in a successionary coniferous forest, we passed through a much younger alder forest out onto bedrock only recently uncovered by Mendenhall Glacier.

For this entry, I've decided to narrate the journey in an extensive series of photographs, commenting and reflecting on the experience through the caption sequence.

Click here and scroll up to join me in an electric-blue glacial ice cave. I'm sorry I have no photos from our climb up the waterfall on the way there.

posted by Palmer Seeley | 4:37 PM

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