Near Mt. Adams Wilderness and lands of the Yakama Nation, the Lewis River, Council Bluff & Council Lake |
| The rushing Lewis River is a good stop on the way to Council Bluff and the natural mountain medicine wheel found up on top. |
| Summer Solstice 2004 at Council Bluff & Council Lake |
| Pancake Bay, artist Rod MacIver www.herondance.org |
| Snack at lakeside |
" I have often wondered what there is about the wild places of our world
that gives some people such a feeling of elation. What quality of the
wilderness stretches the spirit and the mind?
…Sometimes it is discovery, perhaps a new meaning revealed and an
ever-increasing awareness of the orderliness of the whole; or a new
sensation, a feeling of wind on the face, a new sensuous pleasure
never experienced before.
But beyond all these lies for me a fascination that runs infinitely deeper.
It is the sense of mystery that dwells in the remote unreachable heart of
the wilderness. Sometimes this sense of mystery is felt as a yearning to
reach out beyond ourselves, a strange inner aching to identify ourselves
with the all-pervading magnificence of nature…. Many people need the
woods far more than they realize. Wild country is a sustaining force…
between human and nature there is a deep affinity. Though mysterious
in quality, nobody can deny its existence. A return to the wilderness is
tranquility regained, love of the wilderness brings exultation."
Look To The Wilderness by W. Douglas Burden