2008-09-11-1732 yay--a full-on connection. Different from last twitter post, I headed south through Giant Forest. _There_ I found my extensive grove of giant sequoia. But unlike the coast redwoods, it is a mixed forest--the coast redwoods can reproduce without seeds (asexually?), these cannot.
I'm headed south on the High Sierra trail now, and will take this to the Kern River & Golden Trout wilderness and probably head right back out (to Kernville) where I started if my food lasts long enough. I could be out in as little as one week, but I hope to be here at least two more. As Jardine notes, quality of food is key to wanting to stay out here. In the past half hour I've been thinking about other forests or ecosystems where I might have an easier time. But I did just chow down on some elderberries. . . eventually I may type in the list from today's resupply. Plenty of fat, carb, protein, but not a lot of fruit or anything that excites me a lot. The only mistake perhaps: the flour tortillas which I've eaten already. I also contemplated the bears--they're big, they get enough to eat out here. . . anyways. If I could get more lentils to soak, decent rice maybe--but I haven't wanted to hitch anywhere. Also, things are starting to shut/gear down for the winter.
Thanks Mike and Phillip from Ohio for sharing your site with me!
That's about it for now. I've been having fun with the camera--some photos of the Sherman Tree and the architecture around it, among other pics. Will comment on the photo when it is up, I hope--as a temple to a tree--it works. The design of viewers' approaches to the tree is apparent & well done.
Things have been a bit blah-er out here recently, but also times of a deepish love for the experience. Never sure what's next. Tropical fruit-bearing climates? Work on a ship or oil rig? More or less the same-old: how to make this more collaborative? to avoid ruts? and a half-wondering why I'm not doing anything particularly eco, beyond exploring a possible sort of path of less consumption.
No incoming emails, and not sure I want to fire up opera mini to see if there may be any input from the cyber world waiting for me.
Yesterday, was a storm with so much hail it looked like it had snowed--fortunately I was only ever on the edge of it and needed only warmer clothes, not raingear, walking through the snowy aftermath.
Time to head on, I suppose. Read some scifi yesterday and day before--_Ubik_ and _Spook Country_, but was sort of avoiding more meaningful stuff like Proust and Italo Calvino. This may have contributed to the blahness. And I haven't had enough batteries to listen to some audiobooks--
I did have a nice unfreezing lake to swim in yesterday!
Peace,
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