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Show 479. CHAPTER XI: NATIONAL PARKS GETTING PEOPLE INTO THE WOODS The excursion Muir took to Yosemite in 1895 was in many ways as significant as the one he had taken seven years earlier with Robert Underwood Johnson. He was in the region for over a month, first descending the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne alone, following his own austere style, walking along bear trails. Then, travelling in a much more elaborate style along the Tioga Road with T.H. Lukens, meeting in addition a party of young women whom he immediately liked, Muir had a social excursion to Tuolumne Meadows. With this diverse group, Muir climbed Mount Conness and Mount Dana, apparently having a fine time. That he enjoyed his own kind of excursion as well as the fine social time he had with the other travellers, suggests that he was no longer very critical of others in |