In this episode I go on the trail, and off the trail to the highest lake in California, Lake Tulayino. I read my journal entries aloud as I go, and give you my perspective and what i am thinking about as I immerse myself in the wild country. Humanity needs to know that there are wild places that we are preserving. We need to know that we haven't consumed the entire world with our obsessive compulsion for technology and civilization and progress. There's always going to be a part of us that longs for simple, wild places, and even if we never visit them, it gives us some comfort to know they exist. Exist. This is the existence value of things. The value of things never seen never visited and yet admired and loved.

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Support for Rebel Nature in part by an affiliate partnership with Blick Art Supplies Produced and managed by Quail Run Studios Original Music written and recorded by Christopher Grant Ward. Any commercial music used in this episode has been licensed for airplay by the Harry Fox Agency, 40 Wall St. NY NY You can learn more about me and my art at christophergrantward.com

I'm sharing this special episode of Rebel Nature today so you know, how very special your life is. For this week, you are one of the only human lifetimes chosen to witness an incredibly rare traveler put on a show.

It turns out, perhaps once every 80,000 years, that comet unceremoniously named Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (can we just call it Atlas?) permits us the most rare of privileges to grace its presence.

It's so mathematically rare that YOU are the one of the rare lives who has the chance to see Atlas complete its trip. 4 in 3000 human generations got this chance to witness this rare traveler. You are most certainly meant to see it, to be affected by its mere existence and, thus, to hear its silent message. Nature occasionally shakes perspective and scale back into our fragile frames.

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Support for Rebel Nature in part by an affiliate partnership with Blick Art Supplies Produced and managed by Quail Run Studios Original Music written and recorded by Christopher Grant Ward. Any commercial music used in this episode has been licensed for airplay by the Harry Fox Agency, 40 Wall St. NY NY You can learn more about me and my art at christophergrantward.com

This is Part 1 of several journal entries I made as I hiked the Sierras over the last few years. I was asked to retell some of these stories as an alternative to the explorations of science and history thus far on Rebel Nature. I hope you enjoy this departure and find a 1st person account of deep backcountry experience worthwhile.

***Credits***

• Support for Rebel Nature in part by an affiliate partnership with Blick Art Supplies
• Produced and managed by Quail Run Studios
• Original Music written and recorded by Christopher Grant Ward.
• Any commercial music used in this episode has been licensed for airplay by the Harry Fox Agency, 40 Wall St. NY NY
• You can learn more about me and my art at christophergrantward.com

Mentioned in this episode:

Credits

Support for Rebel Nature in part by an affiliate partnership with Blick Art Supplies Produced and managed by Quail Run Studios Original Music written and recorded by Christopher Grant Ward. Any commercial music used in this episode has been licensed for airplay by the Harry Fox Agency, 40 Wall St. NY NY You can learn more about me and my art at christophergrantward.com