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Tifanei's avatar

I’m enamored. This was a fascinating read.

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Miles Howard's avatar

Thank you, Tifanei! I enjoyed the rumination involved with writing this one.

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Fred Athey's avatar

With 80 years of world wide hiking joy - and having one experience with "getting separated" from a fellow hiker is an event that I found almost as shattering as the times during my Navy days when the the squawk box blasted out; BATTLE STATIONS -this is NOT a drill. - Have a pre- hike POA

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Miles Howard's avatar

It's truly unsettling, isn't it? In such a deeper and chillier way than a lot of the other things we encounter which can be stressful and scary.

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linda Given's avatar

The Silhouette of the Fellowship image - I imagined it as the iconic image from Bergman's The Seventh Seal! And thanks, nice piece and will check out the bear info!

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Miles Howard's avatar

As far as I know, this image was synonymous with the Peter Jackson LOTR movies, but now I wonder if there had been a rendition of it with one of the earliest editions of the books, before Bergman directed The Seventh Seal…

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