Gary Snyder, Prototype of Kerouac's “Dharma Bums” (1957) fictional hero leading the way sauntering by Alpine stream in Northern Cascades, Washington State's Glacier Peak Wilderness area, we went on light-day backpack to climb Glacier Peak tops, ice ax & crampons; Snyder was back from near-decade in Kyoto studying and practicing Zazen. My first mountain walk, August 1965. (Photo snapped by Martene Algiers, caption: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate / Getty Images)
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