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The Writing Studio: Backpacking the Big Smokies with Ed Abbey

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5/4/2008
12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Location:
Great Smokey Mountains 
Category:
VU Community only
May 1-4

This trip is designed for backpacking enthusiasts interested in enriching their experience of the outdoors through writing and photography. While hiking through the heart of the Appalachian wilderness, one of the most biologically diverse regions in the country, we will also take time to document our experience, exploring the Smokies in greater depth and detail with cameras and journals.

We will take along the 1973 collaboration between nature photographer Eliot Porter and environmental writer Edward Abbey, Appalachian Wilderness: The Great Smoky Mountains, as a guide book for our own excursion to this diverse landscape. All participants will receive a personal copy of this book as a memento of the trip. 

We will leave campus on Thursday afternoon, spend one night at the Cosby campground, and then set out early the next morning for three days on the trail, returning to campus on Sunday night.

Trip sponsored by The Writing Studio