Dan's Outside

2003.09.15

***Back from a quick overnight
pack trip to Fletcher Lake in the Tuolumne Meadows area of Yosemite with my son, Brandon. We travelled light, leaving behind lots of gear that we might take on a longer trip of if weather was threatening. We hiked up to Fletcher Lake on Saturday and on Sunday took the long way back, hiking cross-country to Ireland Lake and then down to the Muir Trail on the Lyell Fork of the Tuolumne River.

***A Wilderness, Unretouched.
An exhibit of 49 photographs from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska went on display over the weekend at the California Academy of Sciences. [New York Times: Science]

When they were shown at the Smithsonian Institution in the spring, Subhankar Banerjee, the photographer, complained that the exhibition had been moved downstairs and the captions had been altered under political pressure from supporters of the Bush administration plan to drill for oil there.

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September 15, 2003 - Posted by gdanmitchell | Commentary