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longing for the natural in unnatural times

For my birthday a couple of years ago, four of us went to backpack for a night in Big Bend. It was late March, or windy season as the locals warned us. We were too revelrous the night before the hike and didn’t get started on the trail until early afternoon—our second mistake. The first was thinking too little about what “windy season” actually meant.

We…