Program 579a: Kerouac’s Firewatch; Erosion; USA National Parks

British travel writer Dan Richards describes his hike to the remote post in Washington's North Cascades where Jack Kerouac spent two months as a fire lookout. Then author and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams describes how the processes of erosion define the Utah desert landscape she calls home, and how understanding them can provide a helpful perspective on our civic and social territory, as well as our physical. And photographer and guidebook writer Becky Lomax shares more of her favorite experiences in America's national parks.

• Dan Richards, RLF Fellow at Bristol University, and author of "Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth" (Canongate)
• Terry Tempest Williams, author of "Erosion: Essays of Undoing" (Sarah Crichton Books)
• Becky Lomax, author of the "National Parks USA" guidebook (Moon)

• Dan Richards, author of "Outpost," includes photos of sites he encountered on his trip up Desolation Peak in an article he wrote for the Telegraph.
• Terry Tempest Williams is the author of "Erosion: Essays of Undoing."
• Terry's latest work is a collaboration with Swiss photographer Fazal Sheikh, which was released in 2021, called "The Moon is Behind Us."
• Becky Lomax has compiled detailed information about all 59 of the U.S. National Parks in the Moon guidebook "USA National Parks," which earned her a Lowell Thomas Award in 2019.
• Caller Tricia from Madison, Wisconsin shares the photo of her re-climb to the top of Morro Rock, in Sequoia-King's Canyon National Park.