ARCHIVE - Visualizing Ecology - A Year in Paradise http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/taxonomy/term/17/0 en ARCHIVE - Levi Ponce http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/levi-ponce-1 <p><font size="2"> <p>A year in paradise, Besides having a corny title, really made me excited about going to Mt. Rainier this week. Hearing Floyd Scmoe&#39;s detailed descriptions of the workings of nature on the mountain made me imagine what was to come. I know that it will be different than his description though. So much time has passed since his experience. His admiration for nature (and life in general) shows through so much in the book. His knowledge of the outdoors was impressive as well,I enjoyed reading how crazy the names of trees are and how flawed the naming process is (or was, I don&#39;t know if its any better these days).</p> </font></p><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/levi-ponce-1">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/levi-ponce-1#comment A Year in Paradise Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:29:50 -0700 ponlev14 333 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall ARCHIVE - Elisa Otter http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/elisa-otter-1 <p>Last week in Seminar, we talked about the different ways of promoting nature in both Louv and Hinchmen’s books. A Year In Paradise is by far the most compelling advocate for protecting and experiencing nature for me. Schmoe’s descriptions of life on the mountain made me feel like I was right there in all her glory. He made her come alive as this ever-changing organism. Weaving in his incredible knowledge of the cycles of life, like the reproduction process of alpine firs (127) and how everything is working intentionally together to create and further its existance.  He brought me on a journey through the incredible transitions of the mountain. I felt like I was vicariously spying on the wild of Rainier, as it lives and breathes through the heights and transitions of the seasons. This volcanic mass lives through so much each year. It was extremely humbling to read about the power of nature, the ’river of ice’ taking with it the imaginable amount of rock each year. And while that incredible force is working away underneath, the delicate wildflowers are turning the mountainside into a colorful wonderland; so many processes all going on simultaneously, that is life in motion. Schmoe made me think about how high we human deem ourselves important. We think we are all-knowing and rule this earth. But next to this incredible organism of nature at work, especially one of such extreme conditions and transitions as Mt. Rainier, humans seem like a joke. Who do we think we are compared to these massive dwellings of life?</p> <p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/elisa-otter-1">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/elisa-otter-1#comment A Year in Paradise Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:14:12 -0700 otteli23 326 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall ARCHIVE - Elisa Otter http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/elisa-otter-0 <p>Last week in Seminar, we talked about the different ways of promoting nature in both Louv and Hinchmen’s books. A Year In Paradise is by far the most compelling advocate for protecting and experiencing nature for me. Schmoe’s descriptions of life on the mountain made me feel like I was right there in all her glory. He made her come alive as this ever-changing organism. Weaving in his incredible knowledge of the cycles of life, like the reproduction process of alpine firs (127) and how everything is working intentionally together to create and further its existance.  He brought me on a journey through the incredible transitions of the mountain. I felt like I was vicariously spying on the wild of Rainier, as it lives and breathes through the heights and transitions of the seasons. This volcanic mass lives through so much each year. It was extremely humbling to read about the power of nature, the ’river of ice’ taking with it the imaginable amount of rock each year. And while that incredible force is working away underneath, the delicate wildflowers are turning the mountainside into a colorful wonderland; so many processes all going on simultaneously, that is life in motion. Schmoe made me think about how high we human deem ourselves important. We think we are all-knowing and rule this earth. But next to this incredible organism of nature at work, especially one of such extreme conditions and transitions as Mt. Rainier, humans seem like a joke. Who do we think we are compared to these massive dwellings of life?</p> <p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/elisa-otter-0">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/elisa-otter-0#comment A Year in Paradise Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:13:55 -0700 otteli23 325 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall ARCHIVE - Harmony Lawrence http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/harmony-lawrence-2 <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">I found “A year in Paradise” the personal account of living in the Paradise lodge for a winter by Floyd Schmoe an interesting way of viewing the past of the area we will soon be visiting in our class.<span>  </span>I am hoping that this book will help give me a sense of the environment on Mount Rainer before the heightening of the urbanizing mentality that now possesses society in this day and age.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>            </span>Though I have never been on Mount Rainer myself, I felt a connection to the mountain environment described through the vivid words of Floyd.<span>  </span>The images of the snow white environment and the lines of tracks moving through the snow around his house and the birds that he came in contact with all triggered a sense of relationship with a mountain.<span>  </span>I found the scenes very familiar with the world I knew as a child at Crystal Mountain not far from Rainer.</font></font></p> <p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/harmony-lawrence-2">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/harmony-lawrence-2#comment A Year in Paradise Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:03:45 -0700 lawhar17 323 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall ARCHIVE - R.J. Jensen A Year in Paradise http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/r-j-jensen-a-year-in-paradise <p>A Year in Paradise by Floyd Schmoe was a good book, he really gets his passion for the wilderness across.  Floyd is a very intriguing writer and can put a really good mental picture of what he sees in to your head.  When they are first walking up to Paradise Inn he describes the way the snow drifts are blown over everything but you can still see little patches of bushes coming out of the snow, put a very clear picture in to my head.  He seems like he is very outdoor oriented guiding people up mountains and being able to summit a mountain by himself are all hard feats.  I was amazed that he</p> <p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/r-j-jensen-a-year-in-paradise">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/r-j-jensen-a-year-in-paradise#comment A Year in Paradise Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:59:14 -0700 jenrob16 322 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall ARCHIVE - JackMcGee--Paradise http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/jackmcgee-paradise <p> A Year in Paradise by Floyd Schmoe is a mountaineer's nature journal. Through the black and textured white of text on paper, Schmoe colors a world of natural wonder and holy significance. Although he is writing this after being years on Rainier, he writes of his first year with the same acquisitions of surprise and wonder as if he was narrating it. That's how the reader feels. That's how I felt. I’ll tell you, sitting in a park full of rain and gray clouds, reading the novel really lifts the spirit. I felt involved in his world as much as I did in my own. While reading, I observed the world in the way he has.</p> <p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/jackmcgee-paradise">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall/jackmcgee-paradise#comment A Year in Paradise Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:11:28 -0700 mcgjoh23 307 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecofall