Table of Contents
Foreword, 2014 Ben Lawhon vii
Guy Waterman: An Appreciation Laura Waterman ix
Foreword Roderick Frazier Nash xii
Acknowledgments xv
I Something More Than Trees and Rocks
1 Fay's Quandary 18
2 What Are We Trying to Preserve? 24
3 What Is the Wild? 30
4 The Spiritual Side of Wild 35
5 Values in Conflict in the Backcountry 42
6 Why the Lorax Lost 54
II Respect for the Mystery
7 The Numbers Racket: Large Parries and Wildness 62
8 Exploitation by Any Other Name 73
Case Study: Slouching toward Lake Wietelmann 81
9 Guidebooks and Wildness 87
Case Study: The Future of Melville Cascades 93
10 Traits and Wildness 99
III Machines Amok in the Garden
Case Study: Scott, Hillary, and Ma Bell 106
11 Radio and Wildness 112
Case Study: The Saga of the Snowmobile 121
12 One-Person Transportation Devices and Wildness 125
13 Aircraft and Wildness 133
Case Study: A Night in Odell's Gully 141
14 The High Cost of Search and Rescue 149
IV What Kind Of Backcountry do we Want?
15 Of Time and Wildness 162
16 Solitude amid the Multitude 169
Case Study: Winter above Treeline 177
17 Five Winter Trips: The End of Adventure? 190
18 In Defense of Difficulty 208
Epilogue: The Polar Bear Within 219
Selected Bibliography 229
Index 233
