Next steps on the Curious Trail have led me to a book titled Voices for the Earth: A Treasury of the Sierra Club Bulletin. The book was published by Sierra Club Books in 1979 and edited by Ann Gilliam. While reading the introduction, written by Harold Gilliam, I was moved by a story I had…

When I consider the various Sierra Club Bulletin articles from the early years, this one stands out. Not only in length, 107 pages total, but also in detail. It’s a first-hand account of Joseph LeConte’s first trip to Yosemite during the summer of 1870. The words are captured in Sierra Club Bulletin Volume 3 No….

I can remember, maybe not every detail, but I recall the feeling, standing in the presence of the California Big Trees for the first time. It was Grant Grove in May of 2005. In that moment, time stood still, there was no place to be but exactly where I found myself. There were no items…

An interesting thing happens to a man when a landscape changes his perspective. When he suddenly sees beyond the world of streets, cars and city traffic. When his sense of scale is confronted by the superlative trees around the edge of the meadow. What happens naturally to a man who is waking up? He begins…