Kerouac's #DharmaBums got me interested in mountains & wilderness, Sierra Club got me out into it: first as Service Trip participant, then as cook, ultimately paving the way for my move to San Francisco.
Canon AE-1 selfie taken atop California's Matterhorn late summer 1989 after dropping cookset in Yosemite. Peak figures prominently in Dharma Bums & a weatherproof canister holds a logbook of people similarly inspired to climb.
Only period where I sported facial hair.
Scan by Photoworks SF.