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A salute to Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall and a fine storyteller. I heard today that he passed away. Easter Sunday on the trail. My feet and legs felt great when I started walking, fully recovered from the day before. Few bicyclists …
I had the trail to myself when I started walking. People in nearby farmhouses were still sleeping. Birds flitted and sang, squirrels scampered. I saw a place where beavers had been cutting trees during the spring floods. That’s assuming there aren’t 10 foot tall beavers …
I slept great and woke up early. I packed in the first gray light and began to follow the bicycle trail that runs along the river. There were many deer and hundreds of ducks and greese, even wild turkeys. I passed a lock and dam …
