The namesakes of this place are disturbingly absent, their names erased. Yet, the trails somehow bring the Chiricahua leaders to mind, as if, according to Apache mysticism and worldview, the land itself still tells their stories.
The namesakes of this place are disturbingly absent, their names erased. Yet, the trails somehow bring the Chiricahua leaders to mind, as if, according to Apache mysticism and worldview, the land itself still tells their stories.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part one of a two-part series about Loyalsock resident Al Sever’s experience hiking Spain’s Camino de Santiago trail. Sever
Three miles in length, Long Lake feels like a peaceful summer camp pond, ringed with snug cottages, leafy trees, and sunny wildflowers. Nothing about the idyllic scene reveals the perilous hardships of one man’s odyssey to reach gold-rush Alaska.
An experienced hiker shares the lessons he learned during an 11-month, 2,000-mile-plus extended hike on the Camino de Santiago – the collective name for the network of pilgrimage routes that flow like a river’s tributaries across Europe.