My Wilderness: Eleanor Huffines

Posted At : August 12, 2008 1:00 AM
Related Categories: Outdoors,Alaska

Excerpted from My Wilderness: The Pacific West by William O. Douglas, published in 1960 by Doubleday, a division of Random House.

Read by Eleanor Huffines: "As Alaskans we are incredibly fortunate to have this nation's only Arctic ecosystem, a place where traditional cultures and wildlife still thrive." Eleanor is the Alaska Director of The Wilderness Society. She has been fortunate to spend a significant portion of the last 14 years also guiding people from around the world paddling, hiking and climbing throughout Alaska. She checks out this music website: Pollstar.com.

Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas visited the Brooks Range and wrote about it in My Wilderness: The Pacific West.

"The Arctic has strange stillness that no other wilderness knows. It has loneliness, too -- a feeling of isolation and remoteness born of vast spaces, the rolling tundra, and the barren domes of limestone mountains. This is a loneliness that is joyous and exhilarating. All the noises of civilization have been left behind; now the music of the wilderness can be heard. ...

The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains make one want to go on and on over the next ridge and over the one beyond. The call is that of a wilderness known only to a few. It is a call to adventure. This is not a place to possess ... it is one to behold with wonderment."

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