Today's hiker, moving at the same easy pace (slightly less than 10 mijes a day) will encounter almost precisely-on the surface at least - what the two men saw 130 years ago. Thoreau took three days to walk the seacoast, spending two nights on the way before reaching Provincetown. The seashore is an arm of the National Park Service that supervises the entire beach and dune area Thoreau was about to hike upon. this turnoff point today stands the handsome Salt Pond Visitor Information Center and Museum maintained by the Cape Cod National Seashore.6) before turning right at the Eastham Meeting House to trudge across a sandy, pineāladen, fogbound area to the seacoast. For the first mile or so the two men walked along a muddy road (now the narrow, heavily trafficked U.S. Thoreau called him a genius who lacked talent. He maintained that he was concerned only with the ethereal and the universal the particular and the definite had no interest for him. An ideal traveling companion, Channing was everything Thoreau was not - impractical, disorganized, amenable. Under an adjoining umbrella was his companion, William Eller Channing. Thoreau responded to the weather with the rising spirits of one who made it his business to deal forthrightly with nature. Strong winds, the aftermath of a great storm, lashed the narrow strip of land known as the Lower Cape. 11, 1849, Henry David Thoreau set off to walk the 30 miles of uninterrupted beach facing the Atlantic at the tip of Cape Cod.
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