Take a Hike! Ok. I’m Ready to Learn.

Take a Hike! Ok. I’m Ready to Learn.

Spring (14 hrs or more) | This course has been canceled

One Court Street Lebanon, NH 03766 United States

Room 2A

NEW

4/10/2020-5/22/2020

9:00 AM-11:00 AM EDT on Fri

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$80.00

Join us for a seven-week armchair adventure available cinematically through both documentary and Hollywood type films such as Trail Magic, The Grandma Gatewood Story (A.T.), Brad Pitt’s Seven Years in Tibet, or A Walk in the Woods, based on Bill Bryson’s book of the same name, with Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson.

We will also hear, from co-facilitator Greg Cook, various stories about hiking and mountaineering, including the Appalachian Trail (A.T.), the Pacific Crest Trail, the Himalayas, etc.

These stories will help us understand why people of various ages, varied experiences and different backgrounds take up hiking and ‘summitting’, beyond the usual reasons such as, “It was there” or “To test myself.”

We will host several outside speakers, and each film screening will be followed by discussion. Film study guides are provided by email.

In addition to those listed above, possible films include:


  • Wild - Reese Witherspoon

  • Scream of Stone - Werner Herzog

  • Eiger Sanction - Clint Eastwood

  • Touching the Void - Simpson and Yates, re-enacted

  • There are no required texts.
Watson, Don

While a student at the Universite de Poitiers, Don Watson discovered the French fascination with American Westerns. He also learned to appreciate the New Wave Cinema. He retired from teaching French and Latin at Hanover High School while he still had a sense of humor. In 1991, he started the Sister City Exchange program between Hanover and Joigny, France. He has an MA from the University of Chicago and an MLS from SUNY-Albany. 

Cook, Gregory

Gregory Cook is a retired Social Worker, M.S.W. at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Appalachian Trail Angel, and member of the 48 Four Thousand Footer Club.