The Cartographer's Forgotten Trails
In 1978, a young park ranger named David Muller arrived at Canyonlands National Park in southeastern Utah with a crisp topographic map and the confidence...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 25:1-10.
In 1978, a young park ranger named David Muller arrived at Canyonlands National Park in southeastern Utah with a crisp topographic map and the confidence of a man who believed he could navigate anything. Within three days, he was hopelessly lost in a maze of sandstone corridors near the Needles District, his water nearly gone, his map useless against the reality of slot canyons that all looked the same.…
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