The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

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• Tim Cahill:

  Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

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• Tim Cahill:

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• Tim Cahill:

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• Tim Cahill:

  As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American

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  I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and wri