Pivot points

When life starts a new paragraph

From a 1995 Patagonia catalog, credit Greg Epperson

Since I was little, I wanted to be a mountain climber. I wanted to roam the Alps, or the Sierra Nevada, alone with a backpack, an anorak, an old pair of boots. Growing up in Connecticut, options were limited, but our Boy Scout leader took us on monthly camping trips, even in the winter, and bigger exped…