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782 Winter Walk Fall 5 the sky, how I tingled my fingers among their tassels, rubbed my feet among the fallen needles
burrs I had a grand greeting of Yosemite rocks never did they appear so lovable or more willing to speak to me as to a friend.
But though I bathed in the bright river sauntered on the meadows rustled in the brown ferns prayed with the pines, I was still
uneasy, as if tainted with the sticky sky of your town, therefore I determined to run out to the higher Mtns. 'The days are
sunful' I said though it is now winter there will be but little danger a sudden storm will not prevent me from forcing my
way back to the Valley, will do me the good I seek. Next morning after this decision I rolled up a pair of blankets set out
up the Canon of Tenaya caring little about the quantity of bread I carried, for I said that a fast a storm a difficult canon
is just the medicine I require to heal me of all this town heaviness The distance from Mirror Lake up the Tenaya Canon to
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