“The best idea we ever had”

It is John Muir Day this Friday 21 April. It should be the perfect excuse to get out walking, writes Kevin Lelland of the John Muir Trust. “The best idea we ever had,” said Pulitzer Prize winning author and associate of the Wilderness Society Wallace Stegner of the United States National Parks system. And the man who more than anyone helped turn that idea into an enduring reality was a boy from East Lothian who at ten years old set sail with his family on an emigrant ship across the Atlantic. John Muir was many things: a writer, an explorer,…