I need to tell you all about the five day hike we took in the Sierra Nevada in June, on the John Muir Trail. I haven't been able to do it yet because there were so many dead trees, it broke my heart, and I realize it's still broken.
We were there three years earlier (we took a 20 day hike then, with both kids) in August and things looked fine. This summer, in June, everything was bone dry. No snow to speak of, not even on passes. Many dried streams that we'd seen running strongly in the earlier August trip.
With this stuff it's like your heart bends and never springs back how it was. I love the Sierra so much. Now I don't know if I can still go into that beautiful backcountry. I used to go to escape and feel my soul soar, now I'm constantly reminded of climate breakdown and I grieve
I'll post some photos tomorrow. But, you know, this kind of thing is part of why I speak out so strongly. I don't even care if I get fired or whatever, I really don't, not anymore. Some things are so much bigger than a career. This is all so much bigger than any one of us.
Also, seeing how much we're losing is behind the efforts I put in to change systems, which is like a second unpaid (and extremely intense!) job, and also behind the efforts I've put in to burn less fossil fuels, which is very easy in comparison, even quite joyful in my experience
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