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Central Oregon is Made of Light and Magic

December 28, 2008 / carrot quinn / 4 Comments

This is the very last installment of our regularly scheduled hitch-hiking program. The past has hereby officially caught up with the present tense, in a mild and happy manner, where everything goes alright and Home Is Reached. All entries from here on out will be made up of either the future (which by then will … Continue reading Central Oregon is Made of Light and Magic

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Gear!! How much do yall love to talk abt gear? I made a series of stories abt the gear I'll be bringing on the 500ish mile Mogollon Rim Trail in April. Included in the vids are action steps for fighting white supremacy in the outdoors community! Peep the "GEAR" story highlights above to watch. #MogollonRimTrail

The outdoors community is a white supremacist community. What I mean by this is that land managenent agencies, outdoors organizations and outdoors media all predominantly center and uplift the narratives of white outdoorspeople- one narrative being that "wilderness" is an apolitical space. This narrative serves white people (myself included), by scrubbing away the history of genocide and colonialization on which this country was founded, the environmental racism that means communities of color bear the brunt of pollution and ill advised resource extraction, the fact that southern Arizona is a militarized zone in which thousands of refugees are forced into the desert wilderness to their deaths, etc etc. "Wilderness" as imagined by white outdoorspeople in the US does not in fact exist. This "wilderness" is just an illusion, created for the comfort and recreation of white people (like myself). A land of make believe. A place to play pretend. "I go to the wilderness to get away from politics," says the hiker, as he walks on stolen land where thousands of indigenous ppl were murdered, and steps over the bones of immigrants who died there fleeing situations in central america that we facilitated. 🌵 The white supremacist nature of the outdoors community makes it a very safe place for... white supremacists. Disenfranchised white men, most of them, their blood boiling with rage because their place in culture is shifting from being centered in every single aspect to having to share that platform with others. These are the people who do mass shootings. Every single mass shooting in the US in 2018 was done by a white man with far right ideology, ie white supremacism. This is who carried out the mass shooting in New Zealand. 🌵 It's time for white people in the outdoors community (myself included) to name this by name. If you're white, staying silent doesn't mean you're neutral. It means you're complicit. Because whether or not you agree with white supremacy, if you're white you benefit from it. So you have everything to gain for allowing it to continue unchecked. 🌵 What are some good ways you know of to fight white supremacy in the outdoors community?

Springtime poppies, stormclouds, cactus wren nests in the cholla, my babe and dogs, sunshine, and other things I am grateful for. Also my health, trail running, going to bed early enough that I wake up before dawn and get to witness the day being born, and that 8 hours yesterday when instagram was down and I allowed myself to imagine a world without social media. Magic social media, which levels the playing field and decentralizes the narrative in an unprecedented way but which also sucks whole afternoons into its greedy insatiable maw.

Exciting thing! In April/May, @muffyjdavis and I will be hiking the Mogollon Rim Trail, a nascent route developed by Brett Tucker ( @grandenchantmenttrail ) and Melissa Spencer (@tree_and_sage ) ! 🌵 The #MogollonRimTrail is a 500ish mile route that meanders along the southwest edge of the Colorado Plateau, in Arizona, linking bits of trail both clear and overgrown, jeep roads, and cross country travel. The Mogollon Rim contains the largest stretch of ponderosa forest in the world! It's high and cool! Also canyons! Cattle ponds! Snow in the high bits? Possible bushwhacking?! 🌵 On this route, we'll be gathering water info and other beta for Brett so that he can continue polishing it up b4 releasing it uponst the world. I know little abt this part of AZ- v excited to explore! I'll be blogging every day. The hike will take us abt 4-6 weeks. Only a few ppl have thru-hiked this route- what will it be like?! An adventure! 🌵 (This pic is from Schnebly hill, which is a v nice place to run in Sedona and which I was stoked to see is on this route 😍) 🌵 The Mogollon Rim trail is on Apache, Hohokam, Yavapai and Hopi + land

It was @muffyjdavis ' birthday today and we ate cake in the sunset and I just like, love her so much, man (first photo by @manical )

Good morning from my sun-warmed children. May we all, sometimes, experience embodiment in the simple and uncomplicated way that they do.

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