Returning to Yosemite National Park after a decade away. Connecting with new friends, remembering old ones, and feeling the spirits of those who left us in the days between.
I am a very sentimental person, and as I traveled to Yosemite, I thought of everything that had happened in the decade since I’d last been there. I thought of the climbing legends that had died there, especially Dean Potter, who I used to see around all the time there. When I was twenty-two, that was like seeing Michael Jordan next to you on a basketball court.... So many other things happened too, but my mind just started reminiscing in a way that only nature makes it reminisce. Yosemite to me is nothing short of a love affair, and all this sentimentality is connected to this love of land we call Yosemite.
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I am a very sentimental person, and as I traveled to Yosemite, I thought of everything that had happened in the decade since I’d last been there. I thought of the climbing legends that had died there, especially Dean Potter, who I used to see around all the time there. When I was twenty-two, that was like seeing Michael Jordan next to you on a basketball court.... So many other things happened too, but my mind just started reminiscing in a way that only nature makes it reminisce. Yosemite to me is nothing short of a love affair, and all this sentimentality is connected to this love of land we call Yosemite.