(Excerpts from posts on this trip, first published here in 2009. Read a different take on the trip in the February 7, 2010 Sunday magazine of The Kansas City Star, online at Journey of a Lifetime. View photographs from the trip on Flickr. For the slideshow of the photographs, click here.) Long Strange Trip At [...]
Posts Tagged ‘grand canyon’
Journey of a Lifetime
Posted in Cancer, Writing, tagged boy scouts, donna trussell, grand canyon, journey of a lifetime, kansas city star, linda elizondo, scouting, train trip on February 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A Young Woman’s Death, and Our Uneasy Truce With Wilderness
Posted in Music, tagged bear attack, cape breton, coyote, grand canyon, ken burns, national park, taylor mitchell, wilderness on October 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On Tuesday afternoon, a young Toronto singer-songwriter named Taylor Mitchell was walking the beautiful Skyline Trail in Cape Breton Highlands National Park when two coyotes attacked her. A nearby hiker heard her cries and came to her aid. Mitchell was airlifted to a hospital, but she died the next morning, on Oct. 28. Had she [...]
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