By A. Lynn Ash, BS '71 (psychology)

In Dark Canyon Diary, Ash heads out to replicate her 1981 epic one-year camping adventure around America. From the high Columbia Plateau of Oregon, to the Ruby Mountains of Nevada, to Canyonlands National Park in Utah, she revels in the stark beauty around her. But mile after mile she struggles with a dark inner landscape of yearning and guilt that threatens to sabotage her journey. Finally, on a cliff overlooking the confluence of the Colorado and Green Rivers, she faces down the demons that have been trailing her throughout her trip

A. Lynn Ash, 2020