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Originally Posted by henderson Marriott
First rate, Garry;
In his "A Sand County Almanac", Leopold graphically portrays the loss of the single resident grizzly living atop Escudilla, a well-known mountain near Alpine on the AZ-NM border.
After the loss of the bear to a government trapper, he famously writes of Escudilla " as only a mountain now".
Alpine and Escudilla are just North of my cabin in Greenlee County, Arizona. This border
country was also the Blue-Gila Wilderness area frequented by Ben V. Lilly.
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“Thinking Like A Mountain” is a powerful essay, one of my favorites.
That part of Arizona is amazing.
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