... over an hour when we came to his turn-off. From where he dropped me off, he still had another hour to go before he reached his destination. I had never given much thought to being alone in the backwoods or the distances I trekked, but on this lonely stretch of highway, I was isolated and dwarfed by the immensity of the mountains. The road curved this way and that way through ... for my evening activity of catching some dinner (fresh trout). I found a spot down next to a tributary of the Nass River on the west side of the road. It offered an invitation for the morning sun in the event th...

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