mailbox@corehike.org<\/a>.<\/p>\nINSPIRATIONAL THOUGHTS<\/h1>\n
Our monthly quote from outdoor adventurer writers.<\/strong><\/p>\nEarle Alfred Birney<\/strong>, (1904 \u20131995) was a distinguished Canadian poet and novelist, who twice won the Governor General’s Award, Canada’s top literary honor, for his poetry. You can Google the poem if you want to read through the whole piece, but this little bit, although quite dated, helps explain why people go to such places.<\/p>\n.<\/p>\n
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Excerpt from the poem \u201cDavid\u201d by Earl Birney<\/strong><\/p>\nBut always we talked of the Finger on Sawback, unknown<\/em><\/p>\nAnd hooked, till the first afternoon in September we slogged<\/em><\/p>\nThrough the musky woods, past a swamp that quivered with frog-song,<\/em><\/p>\nAnd camped by a bottle-green lake. But under the cold<\/em><\/p>\nBreath of the glacier sleep would not come, the moonlight<\/em><\/p>\nEtching the Finger. We rose and trod past the feathery<\/em><\/p>\nLarch, while the stars went out, and the quiet heather<\/em><\/p>\nFlushed, and the skyline pulsed with the surging bloom<\/em><\/p>\nOf incredible dawn in the Rockies.<\/em><\/p>\n___________________________<\/p>\n
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SEPTEMBER ACTIVITY SCOREBOARD We’re a bit early this month in sending out the October Newsletter, as this author will be away for a good part of October. Hope you find our newsletter both enjoyable and informative. September was another good month for club outings, considering some events had to be cancelled due to bad weather. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corehike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corehike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corehike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corehike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corehike.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/corehike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8662,"href":"https:\/\/corehike.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/8662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corehike.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corehike.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corehike.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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