Norman MacleanAhead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.
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The west was the only direction left to go. Our ranger station was in the west. The mountains of Idaho were beyond any boundaries and seemed to go even beyond the world. We were all in the West.
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