The Beat Goes On:Lookout Poets and Backcountry Tales on Ross Lake
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Cost includes one night shared lodging and four meals at Learning Center, trailhead shuttle, backcountry campsite and boat transportation on Ross Lake
Venture up Ross Lake and immerse yourself in the literary history of the North Cascades while taking in the beauty of the region during its peak summer glory. Traveling by boat with three great storyteller-naturalists with decades of backcountry experience between them, we’ll read poetry and lookout journals, go swimming and hiking, practice yoga and meditation and tour the lake’s hidden canyons. The highlight of our adventure will be hiking to the top of Desolation Peak where Jack Kerouac, the reluctant “King of the Beats,” lived the life of a mercurial fire lookout–an experience he famously documented in his novels The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels. |
