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Why Sierra Club
Outings? Sierra Club founder John Muir was convinced that the best way
to persuade people to fight to save valuable wild areas was to take
them into the wilderness and let them experience for themselves the
beauty that needs defending. As a result of this conviction, in 1901
the Sierra Club Outings progam began.
"One of the best paying professions is getting ahold of pieces of country in your mind, learning their smell and their moods, sorting out the pieces of a view, deciding what grows there and why, how many steps that hill will take, where this creek winds and where it meets the other one below, what elevation timberline is now, whether you can walk this reef at low tide or have to climb around, which contour lines on a map mean better cliffs or mountains. This is the best kind of ownership, and the most permanent."
Terry and Renny Russell