Friends take a Wild Hike
Glen Baxendale recalls taking his first backpacking trip as a teen-ager. It would have been in the early 1950s, a time when kids in the small lumbering town of Vaughn learned early to fish and hunt and find their way through the forested slopes of the Coast Range near Noti. Back then, he says, backpacking meant throwing a few cans of food in a rucksack along with a sleeping bag and heading off on backwoods trails. So perhaps it didn’t seem like a completely wild idea when he