Photo
credits
From top to bottom: Courtesy Hoover Associates Architects; Linda Cicero (2);
Rod Searcey; Courtesy Terence Chia; Courtesy The Stanford Mendicants; Stanford
Law School/Linly Harris; Courtesy Ann Knudsen; Rod Searcey; Courtesy City CarShare/Patrick
Barber; Chris Callis; Linda Cicero. Right: Diane Thornton
Amazon.com
sales rank of Starr’s Guide to the John Muir
Trail and the High Sierra Region:83,755
Gear
items required for Stanford’s Introduction to
Wilderness Skills: 34
Percentage
of U.S. college graduates who are “very afraid” of
being alone in a forest: 7
Percentage
who are very afraid of looking down from a great height: 23
Height,
in feet, of Hoover Tower: 285
Height,
in feet, of Herbert Hoover: 5.92
Sources:
Amazon.com, Stanford University, Harris Poll, National
Safety Council, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association