http://www.essaydaily.org/2016/12/122-clinton-crockett-peters-new-i-on.html

"I have a soft spot for wilderness trekking writers who I read in high school and college, as I was backpacking in the American West and working as an outdoor guide for three years. They excited me and confirmed a sense of splendor that I felt when isolated in these remote spots. But I can’t, two decades and three degrees later, objectively, ignore the baggage the “nature writing” genre carts around."