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Show 136 ctivity than it first appears. One must discriminate between tctivities which lead to enlightenment and those which do not, iut one must further reflect upon the style, or manner in rtiich the activity is carried out. One can climb the mountains ind fail to get their good tidings, and this happens frequently. )ne need only read Hunt's The Conquest of Everest, to realize low completely a mountaineering expedition can be conceived and carried out as a military campaign against Nature. Muir's :ontribution to the literature of mountaineering was significant not because of his first ascents, but because of the spirit in which they were made. This has far-reaching implications to any theory of recreation. It will never be enough to recommend certain activities. We will always have to consider how the participant engages himself in them. WILDERNESS AND MEN For a full understanding of what a wilderness experience might be, one must reconsider what a wilderness is. No definition of wilderness that I have read helps much. The Wilderness Act of 1964 says, A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own work dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. I am troubled by the term "untrammeled." At what point have |