It’s been said of the writer, environmental advocate, and quintessential “great outdoorsman,” John Muir, that upon arriving by boat to the bustling metropolis of San Francisco in 1868, he immediately asked the locals the quickest way out. When a passerby inquired about where, exactly, he wanted to go, Muir replied, “Anywhere that is wild.” Muir was then directed east—through dense, sequoia-laden forests and expansive mountain vistas—to Yosemite. And it was here that musician Hunter Noack found himself over a century later, on a backpacking trip hosted by the Sierra Club, established by Muir in 1892.