Rolling Western America Nature Now

Map, have you read any Everett Ruess? Well, there's not much formal 'writing' but his diaries are pretty compelling

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oh i'm aware of ruess and i've been meaning to get around to the diaries. i have an issue with a lot of western naturalist writing where i'm prickly about prose style but i may be entering the phase in my life where i'm starting to let that slide. cf wallace stegner who i'll probably try again this year.

ruess though, i admire the woodblock prints i've seen of his

anyway thanks for dropping in andy the grasshopper

Ruess is not so much a nature writer as he's just chronicling his wanderings and adventures, a young man's thoughts.
I've read a fair amount of Stegner, he's a proper 'writer' which Ruess had not yet become when he disappeared