October 10, 1963 (22 pages)

a eI Bae 4 FEI Ht EF H+ +E EE Fe H+ EF +¥ rauncs Contact With Wilderness Is feet in the White Mountains, the: — SS By Hollis Bentley Sometimes a person gets bogged down --all four wheels spinning in mud--becomes immobile and reactionary. This is atimeto look for something wild. The simplicity of wildness is not in stimulation so much as it isa clearing away of anxieties and confusion. Contact with wildness is a cleansing thing--it's a preparation for beginning again, slower this time. Studied, wildness can be a philosophy of basic simplicity. Wildness isn't everywhere. It takes an ungloved hand to fell the wildness in atrout at the end of a line and. something else, perhaps gratitude, lets it go. There's a lot of wildness within Nevada County but sometimes home is part of that gooey mud that spins the wheels uselessly, A ‘trip across the Sierra into Owens Valley and the White Mountains is an escape but it makes the first smell of ‘mountain misery‘ on the PETROGLYPHS---Owens Valley petroglyphs, top includes a marking of four the Chalfant group, grade from Bear Valley a-much more appreciated thing. There is wildness in the eastern view of the Sierra anywhere you look atthem. The peaks rise high and ragged, there is snow yet, and valleys and passes lead the imagination through adventures with magnificant beauty. There was wildness in a night wind that swept a camp near Silver Lake and in the rain that touched our faces in the early dawn. Itwas in the moon shadow we watched move down the mountainside. Clouds and shadows crossed Long Valley and it was a moving, changing light that showed the aspen beginning to turn, In the upper Owens Valley we touched the wildness of a stream the size of Deer Creek running warm and steamy in the cool afternoon. And farther south where the valley widens into a tableland of sage, the rock carvings, the wonderful design ‘by the ancient unknown hand of ‘foot diameter. Below, Red Rock prints. day or night ready to serve you shat ¥% BERGEMANN Funeral Chapel 246 Sacramento St. Nevada City call. 265-2421 man. There are many Sites throughout the valley, several hundred throughout the Sierra and the similarity between some is evident eventothe modern mind. Unlike those in the high forests of ‘Meadow Lake, Sierra Buttes, Grouse Ridge and Donner Summit, this is a desert land, a table whose edges of rock have been carved with designs and symbols representing human life at a time impossible to judge. East of the petroglyphs and at an average elevation of 10,000 #3 bristlecone pine forest is a place of primai wildness. In early October a light snow and an icy wind covered mountainslopes where only the sturdiest and as it happens the oldest of living things lives in its chosen habitat. The bristlecone pine exists under the severest natural conditions and yet it stands in groves somedating to 4600 years ago. It grows like sage in the desert; no tree infringes on another's right to sunlight and in A Cleansing Thing moisture. The trees are tall and CALIFORNIA REPORTS +k EI EEE et nearly every one has spikes of dead trunks that twist like the horns of a unicorn into windsmoothed spires the colors of polished wood. Here is where time and the wind really take over and wildness is absolute. “ OPEN EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT » ‘GET YOUR FREE ‘DRAWING TICKET ‘ALICE’S STYLE SHOP * *% % x * * * K Sas" RRP POM Bee REP IRE I RE Accept no substitutes. A bank offers you more than safety. It’s a place where you can get the money for a new automobile, a new TV set, or a new member of the family. It will look after your valuables, your investments and your securities. It will honor your checks. And it will pay you the highest bank interest permitted by law on the money you put into your savings account. Where else can you get so much for your money—except at a bank. BANK OF AMERICA . NATIONAL TRUST AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION 7 o8eg°* eget ‘OT 19q0190 ***3988nN OUL’’ ‘*P 2 * 313 Broad N.C, '265-4130, * Beg

a eI Bae 4 FEI Ht EF H+ +E EE Fe H+ EF +¥ rauncs Contact With Wilderness Is feet in the White Mountains, the: — SS By Hollis Bentley Sometimes a person gets bogged down --all four wheels spinning in mud--becomes immobile and reactionary. This is atimeto look for something wild. The simplicity of wildness is not in stimulation so much as it isa clearing away of anxieties and confusion. Contact with wildness is a cleansing thing--it's a preparation for beginning again, slower this time. Studied, wildness can be a philosophy of basic simplicity. Wildness isn't everywhere. It takes an ungloved hand to fell the wildness in atrout at the end of a line and. something else, perhaps gratitude, lets it go. There's a lot of wildness within Nevada County but sometimes home is part of that gooey mud that spins the wheels uselessly, A ‘trip across the Sierra into Owens Valley and the White Mountains is an escape but it makes the first smell of ‘mountain misery‘ on the PETROGLYPHS---Owens Valley petroglyphs, top includes a marking of four the Chalfant group, grade from Bear Valley a-much more appreciated thing. There is wildness in the eastern view of the Sierra anywhere you look atthem. The peaks rise high and ragged, there is snow yet, and valleys and passes lead the imagination through adventures with magnificant beauty. There was wildness in a night wind that swept a camp near Silver Lake and in the rain that touched our faces in the early dawn. Itwas in the moon shadow we watched move down the mountainside. Clouds and shadows crossed Long Valley and it was a moving, changing light that showed the aspen beginning to turn, In the upper Owens Valley we touched the wildness of a stream the size of Deer Creek running warm and steamy in the cool afternoon. And farther south where the valley widens into a tableland of sage, the rock carvings, the wonderful design ‘by the ancient unknown hand of ‘foot diameter. Below, Red Rock prints. day or night ready to serve you shat ¥% BERGEMANN Funeral Chapel 246 Sacramento St.

Nevada City call. 265-2421 man. There are many Sites throughout the valley, several hundred throughout the Sierra and the similarity between some is evident eventothe modern mind. Unlike those in the high forests of ‘Meadow Lake, Sierra Buttes, Grouse Ridge and Donner Summit, this is a desert land, a table whose edges of rock have been carved with designs and symbols representing human life at a time impossible to judge. East of the petroglyphs and at an average elevation of 10,000 #3 bristlecone pine forest is a place of primai wildness. In early October a light snow and an icy wind covered mountainslopes where only the sturdiest and as it happens the oldest of living things lives in its chosen habitat. The bristlecone pine exists under the severest natural conditions and yet it stands in groves somedating to 4600 years ago. It grows like sage in the desert; no tree infringes on another's right to sunlight and in A Cleansing Thing moisture. The trees are tall and CALIFORNIA REPORTS +k EI EEE et nearly every one has spikes of dead trunks that twist like the horns of a unicorn into windsmoothed spires the colors of polished wood. Here is where time and the wind really take over and wildness is absolute. “ OPEN EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT » ‘GET YOUR FREE ‘DRAWING TICKET ‘ALICE’S STYLE SHOP * *% % x * * * K Sas" RRP POM Bee REP IRE I RE Accept no substitutes. A bank offers you more than safety. It’s a place where you can get the money for a new automobile, a new TV set, or a new member of the family. It will look after your valuables, your investments and your securities. It will honor your checks. And it will pay you the highest bank interest permitted by law on the money you put into your savings account. Where else can you get so much for your money—except at a bank. BANK OF AMERICA . NATIONAL TRUST AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION 7 o8eg°* eget ‘OT 19q0190 ***3988nN OUL’’ ‘*P 2 * 313 Broad N.C, '265-4130, * Beg