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.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Chilkoot: "No-Fish Basket"

I've just returned (Sunday) to Juneau from Haines via fast ferry. Haines is a small town north of the island of Juneau up the Lynn Canal. My "Searching for Wildness" class camped out on the Chilkoot River just north of Haines (which is located at the mouth of the river. The trip was lots of fun. We saw a couple brown bears and many bald eagles (one roosted above our campsite). Seals bobbed to the surface in the bay from time to time. I climbed Mt. Ripinski (roughly a 3000' climb), summitting in dense fog and chilly persistent wind. The scenes I got on film from that hike are amazing. We met with Tlingit Alaskans in Klukwan who showed us how they live closely with the land, and enjoyed the companionship of Dick and Nora Danhauer, linguists and poets.

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.

posted by Palmer Seeley | 12:17 PM

2 Comments:

Blogger morris said...

G'day, Morris here again, thanks for the link, I've added both your blogs and put this one under 'Travel Blogs', is that OK?

cheers

Morris

Thursday, July 13, 2006 3:07:00 AM  
Blogger Palmer Seeley said...

Super. Thanks.

Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:07:00 AM  

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