July 2006
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Wasdale
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life – John Muir Wasdale is the most remote part of the Lake District, a convenient base for England’s highest mountain and home to its deepest lake. The road, either from…