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Reading Resources for Your Adventure in the Olympics

Olympic Peninsula/Northwest

The Olympic Rainforest: An Ecological Web, Ruth Kirk with Jerry Franklin

Olympic Mountains Trail Guide, Robert Wood

Olympic Mountains: A Climbing Guide, Olympic Mountain Rescue

Gods and Goblins: A Field Guide to Place Names in Olympic National Park, Smitty Parratt

Day Hike! Olympic Peninsula, Seabury Blair, Jr.

Hiking Olympic National Park, Erik Molvar

The Land That Slept Late, Robert Wood

Men, Mules, and Mountains, Robert Wood

Cascade-Olympic Natural History, Daniel Matthews

The Untamed Olympics, Ruby El Hult

Exploring the Olympic Mountains, Compiled by Carsten Lien

Across the Olympic Mountains: The Press Expedition, 1889-90, Robert Wood

Olympic Battleground, Carsten Lien

The Good Rain, Tim Egan

Tree Huggers, Kathie Durbin

Of Men and Mountains, Chief Justice William O. Douglas

My Wilderness, William O. Douglas

Steep Trails, John Muir

The Tried to Cut it All, Edwin van Syckle

On the Harbor: From Black Friday to Nirvana, John Hughes and Ryan Beckwith

Grisdale: Last of the Logging Camps, Dave James

Cecil Andrus: Politics Western Style, Joel Connelly

Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, Michael Azerrad (Kurt Cobain and Kris Novoselic were born and raised in the town Aberdeen in the southwest corner of the peninsula)

Cobain, Rolling Stone

Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, Charles Cross

Backpacking

The Compete Walker IV, Colin Fletcher and Chip Rawlins

Boy Scout Handbook, Boy Scouts of America

Scouting for Boys, Robert Baden-Powell

Camping, Hiking, Backpacking, Wilderness Survival, Weather, and Cooking merit badge pamphlets

Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills, The Mountaineers

Survival with Style, Bradford Angier

Beyond Backpacking, Ray Jardine

The Backpacker's Handbook, Chris Townsend

The Ultralight Backpacker, Ryel Kestenbaum

The Advanced Backpacker, Chris Townsend

The Backpacker's Field Manual, Rick Curtis

Northwest Mountain Weather, Jeff Renner

Outdoor Survival Guide, Larry Dean Olson

How to Stay Alive in the Woods, Bradford Angier

Mountaineering

The Mountains of My Life, Walter Bonatti

Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills, The Mountaineers

Extreme Alpinism, Mark Twight

Starlight and Storm, Gaston Rebuffat

Touching the Void, Joe Simpson

Surviving Denali, Jonathan Waterman

Kiss or Kill, Mark Twight

Ascent: The Spiritual and Physical Quest of Legendary Mountaineer Willi Unsoeld, Laurence Leamer

Annapurna: The South Face, Sir Chris Bonington

Addicted to Danger, Jim Wickwire

Annapurna, Maurice Herzog

The Avalanche Handbook, David McClung and Peter Schaerer

Lament for a Son, Nicholas Wolterstorff (Yale Divinity School Emeritus)

Minus 148 Degrees, Art Davidson

In High Places, Dougal Haston

Jeff Lowe, Ice World

Fred Beckey, Cascade Alpine Guides (three volumes)

Spirit of the Rock, Ron Kauk

Fatal Mountaineer, Robert Roper

Stone Palaces, Geof Chils

Nanda Devi, John Roskelley

K2 The Savage Mountain, Charles Houston and Robert Bates

Challenge of the Cascades, Fred Beckey

Going Higher: Oxygen, Man, and Mountains, Charles Houston

K2: The Story of the Savage Mountain, Jim Curran

Backcountry Cooking

Cookery, National Outdoor Leadership School

Lipsmackin' Backpackin', Christine Conners

More Backcountry Cooking, Dorcas Miller

The Joy of Cooking, Marion Rombauer Becker (many recipes adaptable to backcountry)

Wilderness Medicine

Medicine for the Outdoors, Paul Auerbach

Mountaineering First Aid, The Mountaineers

Medicine for Mountaineering and Other Wilderness Activities, James Wilkerson (ed.)

The Outward Bound Wilderness First-Aid Handbook, Jeffrey Isaac

Leave No Trace

Soft Paths, National Outdoor Leadership School

Leave No Trace: A Guide to the New Wilderness Etiquette, Annette McGivney

Leave No Trace: Minimum Impact Outdoor Recreation, Will Harmon

Wilderness and Wildness

Wilderness and the American Mind, Roderick Nash

Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold

The Wilderness Act of 1964, initially written by Howard Zahniser

Dasun Allah, Speculation Gone Wilding: Jogger Theories Defy the Realities of Reinvestigation,” Village Voice, Dec. 17, 2002 ( http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0250,allah,40472,5.html ). Last checked Jan. 25, 2006).

Jonathan Adams, The Future of the Wild: Radical Conservation for a Crowded World (Boston: Beacon Press, 2006).

Douglas Anderson, “ Wildness As Political Act,” Personalist Forum , vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 65-72, Spring 1998.

Robert Archibald, The New Town Square: Museums and Communities in Transition ( : Alta Mira Press, 2004).

Andrew Beattie and Paul Ehrlich, Wild Solutions: How Biodiversity is Money in the Ban k (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004).

Michael Bennett, The Nature of Cities: Ecocriticism and Urban Environments ( : University of Arizona Press, 1999).

Morris Berman, Re-enchantment of the World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981).

Murray Bookchin, Re-enchanting Humanity: A Defense of the Human Spirit Against Antihumanism, Misanthropy, Mysticism, and Primitivism (New York: Cassell, 1995).

Thomas Birch, “The Incarceration of Wildness : Wilderness Areas as Prisons,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems , vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 3-26, Spring 1990.

Bonnie Burgess, Fate of the Wild: the Endangered Species Act and the Future of Biodiversity (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001).

Ernst Cassirer, Philosophy of Symbolic Forms , trans. John Michael Krois (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996).

Robert Chapman, “The Goat-Stag and the Sphinx: The Place of the Virtues in Environmental Ethics,” Environmental Values 11 (2002): 129-144.

Charles Derber, The Wilding of America: how Greed and Violence are Eroding our Nation's Character (Olympia: St. Martin's Press, 1996).

John Elder, The Frog Run: Words and Wildness in the Vermont Woods (Mineapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2001).

John Eldredge, Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul ( : Nelson Books, 2001).

Neil Evernden, The Natural Alien (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993).

Dave Foreman, Rewilding North America: a Vision for Conservation in the 21st Century (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004).

Rick Anthony Furtak, “Thoreau's Emotional Stoicism,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy: A Quarterly Journal of History, Criticism, and Imagination , vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 122-132, 2003.

Jose Ortega y Gasset, Meditations on Hunting , trans. Howard B. Wescott (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972).

R. Edward Grumbine, “Wildness, Wise Use, and Sustainable Development,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems , vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 227-249, Fall 1994.

Ned Hettinger and William Throop, “Refocusing Ecocentrism: De-Emphasizing Stability and Defending Wildness,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems , vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 3-21, Spring 1999.

Jürgen Habermas, Theory of Communicative Action , trans. Thomas McCarthy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1987).

Andrew Hudgins, The Waltz he was Born for: an Introduction to the Writing of Walt McDonald ( : Texas Tech University Press, 2002).

David Martel Johnson

Ted Kerasote, ed., Return of the Wild: the Future of our Natural Lands (Washington: Island Press, 2001).

Irene Klaver, Jozef Keulartz, Henk van den Belt, and Bart Gremmen, “Born to be Wild: A Pluralistic Ethics Concerning Introduced Large Herbivores in the Netherlands,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 24 (2002): 3-21.

Lee Klinger and Laurence Levy, Representation Type of Commutative Noetherian Rings III: Global Wildness and Tameness ( : American Mathematical Society, 2005).

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild ( : Anchor Books, 1997).

Jack London, The Call of the Wild: Complete Text with Introduction, Historical Contexts, Critical Essays (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004).

Joseph Moncure March, The Wild Party. The Set-up. A Certain Wildness ( : B. Wheelwright Co., 1968).

Mark Michael, “Why Not Interfere with Nature?,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice: An International Forum , vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 89-112, March 2002.

Max Oelschlaeger, The Wilderness Condition: Essays on Environment and Civilization ( : Sierra Club Books, 1992).

Roderick Frazer Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind (New Haven: Yale Nota Bene , 2001).

John Opie, Americans and the Environment: the Controversy over Ecology ( : D.C. Heath, 1971).

Eliot Porter, Galapogos: the Flow of Wildness ( : Sierra Club, 1968).

David Quammen, Wild Thoughts from Wild Places (New York: Scribner, 1998).

John Rohrbach, Eliot Porter: the Color of Wildness ( : Aperture Foundation, Inc., 2001).

Holmes Rolston III, Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988).

-------, “ Lake Solitude: the Individual in Wildness,” Main Currents , vol. 31, pp. 121-126, March-April 1975.

G.S. Rousseau, Exoticism in the Enlightenment ( : Manchester University, 1990).

J.J. Rousseau, Emile ,

Crispin Sartwell, “Wildness, Language, and Solitude,” Reason Papers: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies , vol. 21, pp. 5-14, Fall 1996.

Paul Schmidt, “Freedom and Wilderness in Thoreau's Walking,” Tulane Studies in Philosophy , vol. 35, pp. 11-15, 1987.

Susan Schrepfer, Nature's Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005).

Melanie Simo, Forest and Garden: Traces of Wildness in a Modernizing Land, 1897-1949 ( : University of Virginia Press, 2003).

Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are (New York: HarperCollins, 1988).

Kenneth Simonsen, “The Value of Wildness,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 3 (1981): 259-262.

Paul Sutter, Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002).

Carlo Toffalori, “ Wildness Implies Undecidability for Lattices over Group Rings,” Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 1429-1447, December 1997.

Jack Turner, The Abstract Wild ( : University of Arizona Press, 1996).

Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History (Huntington: R. E. Krieger Pub. Co., 1976).

The Urban Dictionary, “Wilding” and “Wilding Out,” ( http://www.urbandictionary.com ). Last checked January 25, 2006.

Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: the Black Female Body in American Culture ( : University of Michigan Press, 2002).

Max Weber, Economy and Society: an Outline of Interpretive Sociology , trans. Ephraim Fischoff (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978).

Scott Weidensaul, Return to Wild America : A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul ( : North Point Press, 2005).

Brooke Williams, Halflives: Reconciling Work and Wildness (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1999).

Dilafruz Williams, “Reconnecting Body and Mind with Earth,” Philosophy of Education , pp. 53-56, 2002.

Will Wright, Wild Knowledge : Science, Language, and Social Life in a Fragile Environment ( : University of Minnesota Press, 1992).

Bruce Wilshire, Wild Hunger: The Primal Roots of Modern Addiction ( Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998).

Paul Shepard, Environ/mental: Essays on the Planet as Home .

--------, “Five Green Thoughts,” Massachusetts Review 21.2 (1980): 273-88.

--------, “Homage to Heidegger,” Deep Ecology , ed. Michael Tobias (San Diego: Avant Books, 1985).

--------, Nature and Madness (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998).

--------, The Only World We've Got: a Paul Shepard Reader (San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1996).

--------, The Others: How Animals Made Us Human (Washington: Island Press, 1995).

--------, The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998).

--------, Traces of an Omnivore ( : Shearwater Books, 1996).

--------, Where We Belong: Beyond Abstraction in Perceiving Nature (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996).

--------, Man in the Landscape: a Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature .

--------, The Sacred Paw: the Bear in Nature, Myth, and Literature .

--------, And Daniel McKinley, eds. The Subversive Science: Essays Toward an Ecology of Man (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1969).

Oelschlaeger, Max, ed. The Company of Others: Essays in Celebration of Paul Shepard (Skyland: Kivaki Press, 1995).

George Cave, “Animals, Heidegger, and the Right to Life,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 4 (1982): 249-254.

Bruce Foltz, Inhabiting the Earth: Heidegger, Environmental Ethics, and the Metaphysics of Nature (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1995).

-------, “On Heidegger and the Interpretation of Environmental Crisis,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 6 (1984): 330.

-------- and Robert Frodeman eds., Rethinking Nature: Essays in Environmental Philosophy (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004).

Hubert L. Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger's Being and Time, Division 1 (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991).

Susanne Foster, “Aristotle and the Environment,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 24 (2002): 409-428.

Martin Heidegger, Basic Concepts , trans. Gary E. Aylesworth (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993).

-------, Being and Time , trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (New York: Harper & Row, 1962).

-------, Contributions to philosophy (from enowning) , trans. Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1999).

-------, Discourse on Thinking , trans. ___ (New York: Harper Perennial, 1969).

-------, Elucidations of Hölderlin's Poetry , ed. Keith Hoeller (Humanities Press, 2000).

-------, The Essence of Truth: On Plato's Cave Allegory and Theaetetus, trans. Ted Sadler (New York: Continuum, 2002).

-------, Four Seminars , trans. Andrew Mitchell and Francois Raffoul (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003).

-------, Identity and Difference , trans. Joan Stambaugh (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969).

-------, Martin Heidegger: Basic Writings (New York: Harper and Row, 1977).

-------, Martin Heidegger: Philosophical and Political Writings , ed. Manfred Stassen (New York: Continuum, 2003).

-------, On the Way to Language , trans. Peter Hertz (New York: Harper & Row, 1971).

-------, Ontology: The Hermeneutics of Facticity , trans. John van Buren (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999).

-------, Parmenides , trans. Andre Schuwer and Richard Rojcewicz (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992).

-------, Pathmarks , ed. William McNeill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

-------, Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle , trans. Richard Rojcewicz (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001).

------- Poetry, Language, Thought , trans. Albert Hofstadter (New York: Harper & Row, 1971).

-------, The Question Concerning Technology , trans. William Lovitt (New York: Harper & Row, 1977).

-------, Sojourns: the Journey to Greece , trans. John Panteleimon Manoussakis (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005).

-------, Supplements: From the Earliest Essays to Being and Time and Beyond , trans. John van Buren (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002).

-------, What is Called Thinking? trans. Fred D. Wieck and J. Glenn Gray (New York: Harper & Row, 1968).

-------, “Why Do I Remain in the Provinces?” trans. Thomas J. Sheehan, Listening 12 (1977): 122-125.

Michael Inwood, A Heidegger Dictionary (Malden: Blackwell Publishers, Ltd., 1999).

Simon James, “‘Thing-Centered' Holism in Buddhims, Heidegger, and Deep Ecology,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 22 (2000): 359-375.

David Farrell Krell, Daimon Life: Heidegger and Life-Philosophy (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992).

Robert Mugerauer, “Language and the Emergence of the Environment,” in Dwelling, Place & Environment: Towards a Phenomenology of Person and World (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), 57-70.

Otto Pöggeler, Martin Heidegger's Path of Thinking , trans. Daniel Magurshak and Sigmund Barber (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press International, Inc., 1987).

-------, The Paths of Heidegger's Life and Thought , trans. John Bailiff (New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1997).

William Richardson, Heidegger: From Phenomenology to Thinking (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1967).

John Sallis, Radical Phenomenology: Essays in Honor of Martin Heidegger (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1978).

Frank Schalow, “Who Speaks for the Animals? Heidegger and the Question of Animal Welfare,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 22 (2000): 259-271.

Reiner Schürmann, Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy , trans. Christine-Marie Gros (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987).

Leslie Paul Thiele, “Nature and Freedom: A Heideggerian Critique of Biocentric and Sociocentric Environmentalism,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 17 (1995): 171-190.

John van Buren, The Young Heidegger: Rumor of the Hidden King” (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).

John van Buren, “Critical Environmental Hermeneutics,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems , 17 (1995): 259-275.

Laura Westra, “Let it Be: Heidegger and Future Generations,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 7 (1985): 341-350.

Michael Zimmerman, Eclipse of the Self: The Development of Heidegger's Concept of Authenticity (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1981).

Michael Zimmerman, “Toward a Heideggerian Ethos for Radical Environmentalism,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 5 (1983): 99-131.

REWILDING

“A Defense of the Deep Ecology Movement,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 6 (1984): 266.

J. Baird Callicott, “Elements of an Environmental Ethics,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 1 (1979): 71-81.

J. Baird Callicott, “Animal Liberation: A Triangular Affair,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 2 (1980): 311-38.

C. Mark Cowell, “Ecological Restoration and Environmental Ethics,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 15 (1993): 19-32.

Robert Elliot, “Faking Nature,” Inquiry 25 (1982): 81-93.

Robert Elliot, “Extinction, Restoration, Naturalness,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 16 (1994): 135-144.

Joseph Grange, “Being, Feeling, and Environment,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 7 (1985): 351-364.

Alastair Gunn, “The Restoration of Species and Natural Environments,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 13 (1991): 291-310.

William R. Jordan III, Michael E. Gilpin, and John D. Adler, Restoration Ecology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).

Eric Katz, “The Big Lie: Human Restoration of Nature,” Research in Philosophy and Technology 12 (1992): 231-41.

Eric Katz, “The Call of the Wild: The Struggle Against Domination and the Technological Fix of Nature,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 14 (1992): 265-273.

Eric Katz, “The Ethical Significance of Human Intervention in Nature,” Restoration and Management Notes 9, no. 2 (1991): 90-96.

Eric Katz, Nature as Subject: Human Obligations and Natural Communities (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997).

Eric Katz, “Organism, Community, and the ‘Substitution Problem,'” Environmental Ethics 7 (1985): 241-256.

Martin Krieger, “What's Wrong with Plastic Trees?” Science 179 (1973): 453.

Andrew Light and Eric Higgs, “The Politics of Ecological Restoration,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 18 (1996): 227-247.

Mark Michael, “How to Interfere with Nature,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 23 (2001): 135-154.

Arne Naess, “The Shallow and the Deep, Long Range Ecology Movement,” Inquiry 16 (1973): 95-100.

Jonathan Perry, “Greening Corporate Environments: Authorship and Politics in Restoration,” Restoration and Management Notes 12, no. 2 (1994): 145-147.

John Rodman, “The Liberation of Nature?” Inquiry 20 (1977): 115.

Holmes Rolston III, “Down to Earth: Persons in Place in Natural History,” in Philosophies of Place ( : Rowman and Littlefield, 1998).

Holmes Rolston III, Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in Natural World (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987).

Donald Scherer, “Evolution, Human Living, and the Practice of Ecological Restoration,” Environmental Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to the Philosophical Aspects of Environmental Problems 17 (1995): 359-379.

 

Day Hikes Day hikes are a safe, easy way to gain the skills you will need to stay safe in the wild--all while learning about the natural and social history of the area. You will learn about the 10 Essentials, map and compass, trip planning, risk management, and staying found. Your Guide will lend you a kit with some of the Ten Essentials, and you will hike +/- 7 miles while learning about Olympic National Park. Trips do not leave every day, so Reserve Your Spot Today!

Backpacking Backpacking sweeps the backpacker into the wild world of wilderness with all its grandeur and intensity. Backpackers can hike for almost as many days and almost as far as they want: for example, from Staircase in the southeast corner of the park to the Grand Valley in the northeast, from the Dosewallips in the east to Quinault in the west, or from Elwah in the north to Sol Duc in the west. Consider these routes for your ultimate wildnerness experience. Then Reserve Your Spot!

Leave No Trace (LNT) Trainings Leave No Trace is the national standard for outdoor recreation ethics from a conservation perspective. The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics has established two main basic trainings in LNT: Awareness Workshops and Trainer Courses. Awareness Workshops last only a couple hours and offer little or no outdoor training. Trainer Courses are an intensive overnight experience with some backpacking. Reserve Your Spot for the course that's right for you.

Scouting Guide and owner Jason Bausher is an Eagle Scout, Vigil Honor recipient, and is Wood Badge-trained. He can advise your troop about 50-miler hikes, the Leave No Trace Awareness Award, and merit badges such as Hiking, Backpacking, Camping, and Climbing. Jason can also serve as a liaison with the National Park Service to organize work parties or service projects in Olympic National Park. PLUS: Grays Harbor Boy Scouts receive FREE TRAININGS! Reserve Time for Your Program.

Service Tourism on the Olympic Peninsula will only last if we work to conserve the resource by doing trailwork, raising money for political action, and by teaching wildness to the generation to whom we hand over the earth. Sign Up Today to do or give what you can for the preservation of our children's earth. Where are your talents? Clearing trails? Educating National Park visitors about Leave No Trace ethics and practices? Raising money from friends, family, and business associates? Leading Boy or Girl Scouts? YOU CAN HELP!!!

Mountain Seminars Do the mountains, rivers, and glaciers of Olympic National Park merely form one big playground, or is wilderness essential to our Being as embodied Beings in the world? Jason Bausher works on questions such as this in his environmental philosophy, and he shares his research in mountain seminars. He received his master's degree in theology from Yale University and is finishing an M.A. while in a doctoral program in philosophy. Check out a few of the seminars. Don't see your burning "big questions" being asked on this list? Email Olympic Mountain School for a custom program.

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