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Guy Waterman: An Appreciation | p. ix |
Foreword | p. xii |
Acknowledgments | p. xv |
Something More Than Trees and Rocks | |
Fay's Quandary | p. 18 |
What Are We Trying to Preserve? | p. 24 |
What Is the Wild? | p. 30 |
The Spiritual Side of Wild | p. 35 |
Values in Conflict in the Backcountry | p. 42 |
Why the Lorax Lost | p. 54 |
Respect for the Mystery | |
The Numbers Racket: Large Parties and Wildness | p. 62 |
Exploitation by Any Other Name | p. 73 |
Case Study: Slouching toward Lake Wietelmann | p. 81 |
Guidebooks and Wildness | p. 87 |
Case Study: The Future of Melville Cascades | p. 93 |
Trails and Wildness | p. 99 |
Machines Amok in the Garden | |
Case Study: Scott, Hillary, and Ma Bell | p. 106 |
Radio and Wildness | p. 112 |
Case Study: The Saga of the Snowmobile | p. 121 |
One-Person Transportation Devices and Wildness | p. 125 |
Aircraft and Wildness | p. 133 |
Case Study: A Night in Odell's Gully | p. 141 |
The High Cost of Search and Rescue | p. 149 |
What Kind of Backcountry Do We Want? | |
Of Time and Wildness | p. 162 |
Solitude amid the Multitude | p. 169 |
Case Study: Winter above Treeline | p. 177 |
Five Winter Trips: The End of Adventure? | p. 190 |
In Defense of Difficulty | p. 208 |
Epilogue: The Polar Bear Within | p. 219 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 229 |
Index | p. 233 |
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