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Geoff LeBoutillier sent me Rich Campbell's dedication to the Bluff Wilderness Hiking Trail, made at the Trailhead on June 5, 2004, International Trails Day:

On behalf of all the wild things that make this land their home and with reverence for the First People who preserved this land before us, we dedicate the Bluff Wilderness Hiking Trail to wilderness preservation. We do this in trust that we can learn its deep beauty, in trust that we can understand and delight in the wildness in ourselves that we share with the rocks, earth, water, and teeming life and spirits that surround us, and in trust that we will work together to protect this sacred heritage.

Woodens River Watershed Environmental Organization

That says it all. It's places like this that help connect with that wildness in ourselves, which I think is a crucial part of our education as citizens of this earth. Such wildness is not crazy, but the rock bed of true sanity.