Summary of Conor Knighton's Leave Only Footprints

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I had known exactly what my future held, or at least the most important part of it, when I was planning my wedding. But when my fiancée suddenly left me for another man, I was left with no future.
#2 I had gotten into the habit of giving myself pep talks after my breakup, but this was a full-volume aha moment. I knew I was going to find a way to do this no matter what.
#3 I gave thirty days’ notice to my landlord and started packing up my stuff and selling what I could. I was going to live on the road for a year, camping and crashing with friends along the way.
#4 The Great Plains is a landscape as vast as the prairie, but much more difficult to process. Each formation demands its own form of attention, and the predominant hue is a washed-out gray.

Sujets

• Parks
• Travel
• Campgrounds

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 31 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822564190
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Conor Knighton's Leave Only Footprints
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had known exactly what my future held, or at least the most important part of it, when I was planning my wedding. But when my fiancée suddenly left me for another man, I was left with no future.

#2

I had gotten into the habit of giving myself pep talks after my breakup, but this was a full-volume aha moment. I knew I was going to find a way to do this no matter what.

#3

I gave thirty days’ notice to my landlord and started packing up my stuff and selling what I could. I was going to live on the road for a year, camping and crashing with friends along the way.

#4

The Great Plains is a landscape as vast as the prairie, but much more difficult to process. Each formation demands its own form of attention, and the predominant hue is a washed-out gray.

#5

The beauty of Badlands comes from a two-fold process. First, the land was built up over millions of years as seas and rivers deposited silt and sand and clay. Then, it was torn down just recently, when erosion began to rip the soil apart.

#6

First is always remembered. The first kiss, the first love, and the first date are the moments that we remember even if they aren’t that great.

#7

Acadia is on Mount Desert Island, which is pronounced de-ZERT by the locals. It was originally inhabited by the Wabanaki, or the people of the Dawnland, who greeted the dawn on this island long before the first wave of French Jesuits arrived.

#8

I was just an occasional freelancer, a pinch hitter who was rarely called upon when more established correspondents weren’t available. But they had said they were intrigued, and that was all the encouragement I needed to book my ticket to Maine.

#9

I had planned to visit every national park in the country, and I was calm and excited about it. I had hiked ten miles in the first hour of the New Year, and I was still trying to figure out how Instagram worked.

#10

I visited the national parks as a completist, and I was determined to see them all in a calendar year. I was also chasing stories and connections between them.

#11

The town of Hot Springs, Arkansas, once provided more than a million baths a year. But advances in science in the 1950s and 1960s began to make the idea of a medicinal soak sound like quackery.

#12

I had paid four dollars extra for the loofah mitt treatment, which is what I assumed this was. Walter hadn’t been great about explaining things. Sit here, lie there, walk over there, get in this tub. It was all very routine and matter-of-fact, and I could hear him humming.

#13

At Hot Springs, the park is mandated by federal law to give away its primary resource, the geothermal springwater, free of charge to visitors. The water is potable and delicious, and families will fill up a dozen or so bottles at a time free of charge.

#14

I had hired Efrain, a video journalist, to film my parks project. We had met in 2012 when I had hosted a national newsmagazine show in Arizona. We had dated for a couple of months, and then she had moved to Phoenix. I had never thought I would end up in a relationship.

#15

Biscayne National Park is best appreciated with a little extra effort. It is a park that is best appreciated with just a little bit of extra effort. Scuba training consists of practicing everything that could go wrong, but even when everything was going right, I was terrified.

#16

The Fowey Lighthouse was built to warn ships away from the reef, but after it was completed, ships kept striking the reef. The Lugano, a 350-foot steamer, sank here in 1913, carrying a million dollars’ worth of rice, silk, and wine.

#17

The Maritime Heritage Trail is a collection of wrecks that includes the Lugano. It is a trail in the loosest sense of the word - you have to boat from site to site, not swim. At each dive location, the park has signs near the wrecks so divers can understand what they’re looking at.

#18

The hardest skill for a beginning diver to master is buoyancy. You must figure out the right balance of air in your vest and weights on your belt that will keep you from skyrocketing up to the surface or scraping the sandy bottom.

#19

The Everglades is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles coexist in the wild. South Florida is just warm enough for crocodiles, which generally prefer the hotter climate of Central and South America, and just cool enough for alligators, which rarely travel south of Florida.

#20

The Channel Island fox is a rare animal that was on the brink of extinction. It is now thriving in its protected habitat.

#21

The golden eagles only ate small mammals, not fish, and the foxes were all but extinct by the 1980s. But the condors are obligate scavengers, and their entire diet consists of scavenged food.

#22

The California condor is a critically endangered bird that was brought into existence as part of the first list of endangered species given federal protection.