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    The trip to Bearpaw = amazing. Hands down the best camping trip I have ever taken. We were so far up in the mountains in an 1890s-looking camp with no electricity, an outhouse, and a wood-burning operated water heater, that it was hard to think of a life outside this special little shangri-la. The sky looked round and scattered with the brightest stars Ive ever seen. Animals (bears, bucks, marmots) literally lived in the forest right outside our canvas tent-house. We sat by the fire at night and actually made friends with once-strangers, and listened to this guy sing songs he had written on his guitar. It was a surreal kind of place, yet it also seemed to have the formula right–maybe life was really this simple if you let it be…not that I was having revelations left and right. It just felt like the world made sense up there. Continue Reading

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    Bearpaw High Sierra Camp in the Sierra back country of Sequoia National Park. What makes this place so hard to get is that theyre the only cabins available in the backcountry (the…