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“Let’s get lost together . . . ”
Lost in my Backyard brings acclaimed author Tim Cahill together with one of his—and America’s—favorite destinations: Yellowstone, the world’s first national park. Cahill has been “puttering around in the park” for 25 % of a hundred years, slowly covering its vast scope and exploring its remote backwoods. So does this imply that he knows what he’s doing? Hardly. “I live fifty miles from the park,” says Cahill, “but proximity will not guarantee competence. I’ve spent entire afternoons being unsure of exactly where I used to be, which is to say, I used to be lost in my backyard.”
Cahill stumbles from glacier to geyser, encounters wildlife (some of it, like bisons, weighing in a nearby of quite a bit), muses on the microbiology of thermal pools, gets spooked in the mysterious Hoodoos, sees moonbows arcing across waterfalls at nighttime, and generally has an excellent old time walking several hundred miles while contemplating the concept and value of wilderness. Mostly, Cahill says, “I've resisted the urge to commit philosophy. This is difficult to do when you’re alone, twenty miles from the nearest road, and you’ve just found a grizzly bear track how big is a pizza.”
Divided into three parts—“The Trails,” that provides a number of favorite day hikes; “Inside the Backcountry,” which explores three great backcountry trails quite definitely off the beaten track; and “A Selected Yellowstone Bookshelf,” an annotated bibliography of his favorite books on the park—this is a hilarious, informative, and perfect guide for Yellowstone veterans and first-timers alike. Lost in my Backyard is adventure writing at its very best.
