Trail Talk
TIME TO BE OUT AND ABOUT – by Clayton Gillette
Trail Talk – April 2025
WITH ANOTHER merry spring upon us, we’re wise to consider the simple message from Melanie Safka. She writes, “sometimes when we feel as big as the land and we lie back […]
IN THE MOMENT – by Clayton Gillette
Trail Talk – March 2025
THAT NOTION that we might one day travel to that blank spot on the map, to explore where others have not gone ahead of us, is a fantasy that draws so […]
THE WOODS AWAIT – by Clayton Gillette
Trail Talk – February 2025
“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” ~ Aldo Leopold
THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY HERE, in the gradual reclamation of a […]
THE LEGEND OF THE WATER BAR – by Clayton Gillette
Trail Talk – Dec 2024/Jan 2025
ONCE UPON A TIME, in a land not so far away, snow fell from the December sky. As it piled higher and higher, the woodland critters became anxious that their […]
GRATITUDE ON THE TRAILS – by Clayton Gillette
Trail Talk – November 2024
ONE CONSIDERS THE THANKSGIVING SEASON most often from the perspective of gustatory delights, time with kinfolk, and brilliant change of the seasons. Here in the Siskiyou region, we can be thankful […]
INTO WILD PLACES – by Clayton Gillette
Trail Talk – October 2024
“There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some.” ~E. Abbey
AFTER RECENTLY FINISHING Kevin Fedarko’s, A Walk in the Park, we were reminded of the mindfulness […]
WELLNESS FROM A WALK IN THE WOODS – by Clayton Gillette
Trail Talk – September 2024
NATURE BATHING. Mindfulness. Sense of Place. We venture into the out-of-doors to challenge our comfort zones, to enlarge our horizons, and to simply have new experiences. Though there are a wide […]
COURTESY ON THE TRAIL – by Clayton Gillette
Trail Talk – August 2024
OKAY, A QUICK QUIZ to start off this monthly installment: When driving on a mountain road, such as the approach to the Upper Britt parking area, or on either Reservoir or […]
TIME FOR A GOOD RAMBLE… – by Clayton Gillette
Trail Talk – July 2024
THAT WE’D NOT ONLY BUILT THAT TRAIL, that we’d walked and run it innumerable times recreationally, and in our role as a parks volunteer, had completed routine annual maintenance there, would […]
COMMON COURTESY – by Clayton Gillette
Trail Talk – June 2024
PERHAPS IT’S NOT SO COMMON, or at times it appears to be absent altogether. And yet, we’d expect adults to be mindful of others. So how is it that in the […]