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Everybody seems to think Baxter is managed as a wilderness preserve. Some of it is not managed that way, though. According to the park website, the northwest quadrant of the park, north of the perimiter road and west of Matagamon lake, about 14% of the land area, is a designated "scientific...

Periwinkle's account of a solo night hike up Bondcliff way, in which she is quite upfront about being scared of the dark, brings up an interesting subject, which one might call atavistic fears. Forests and darkness are in fact scary, and I think really that it is rooted in evolutionary...

West Mill Brook has an old road, gated at the Dix Mt wilderness boundary, which is no longer much of a road. There is what I suspect is an old cabin site up there, complete with metallic trash, outhouse foundations, etc. There is at least one ex- trail leaving that ex-road, intermittently...

This issue of how "herd paths" or "way trails" come into existence is worth some thought. It's clear that it's all about concentrating usage. Around here, in western WA, I contend that except in cases where natural travel routes are highly confined, as, for example, on a ridgeline...