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WILDERNESS COMPANIONS?

One day as I was resting in the shade Mr. Muir overtook me on the trail and began to chat in that friendly way
in which he delights to talk with everyone he meets. I said to him: “Mr. Muir, someone told me you did not approve
of the word ‘hike.’ Is that so?” His blue eyes flashed, and with his Scotch accent he replied:
“I don’t like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains – not hike!

“Do you know the origin of that word ‘saunter?’ It’s a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, “A la sainte terre,’ ‘To the Holy Land.’ And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.”
A Parable of Sauntering Albert W. Palmer, John Muir, 1911 Sierra Club

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