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Baatara Gorge, and the three-bridge drop
You hear it before the path gives you anything to look at. That is true of most waterfalls, but at Baatara it is a specific kind of unfair, because the sound is…
Tannourine, Lebanon
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I walk toward water,
and eat everything on the way.
Notes from Lebanese mountains, wet trails in the Pacific Northwest, and whichever dumpling place I have most recently become insufferable about.
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