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Finding the southern Appalachians

Jamie Tommins
Aug 12, 2024
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My assistant on our backcountry trail crew in Shoshone National Forest was a guy from Georgia we’ll call Ralph. We lived together in Sinks Canyon, the gateway to the Wind River Range outside Lander, in a government cabin beneath tall cliffs on the Popo Agie River. Like many western valleys, the south-facing wall of the canyon was dry and treeless, litte…

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