{"id":801,"date":"2007-01-29T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=801"},"modified":"2007-01-29T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T19:16:00","slug":"dolores-lachapelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=801","title":{"rendered":"Dolores LaChapelle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dolores LaChapelle<\/a> of Silverton, Colorado, died January 22 at an advanced age<\/a>. (She was still skiing deep powder in her seventies.)<\/p>\n

She begins the preface to her 1992 deep ecology book<\/a> Sacred Land, Sacred Sex: Rapture of the Deep: Concerning Deep Ecology and Celebrating Life<\/em> by stating that it does not fit into any categories:<\/p>\n

it’s neither psychology nor philosophy, neither history nor anthropology–not even social anthropology. It’s most certainly not “eco-feminist,” “new age,” or “futurist.” Yet it takes in all this and much more.<\/em><\/p>\n

So did she.<\/p>\n

The University of Utah has an online collection of her skiing photographs<\/a>. She was a pioneer of ski mountaineering, among other things.<\/p>\n

The Durango Herald ran this feature article about her in 2002<\/a>.<\/p>\n

LaChapelle became renowned in skiing circles for her powder skiing prowess. [While at Alta] she even earned the nickname \u201cWitch of the Wasatch\u201d for her uncanny ability to predict storms.<\/em><\/p>\n

Look at her article “Ritual is Essential”<\/a> for an understanding of how she connected human ritual with living “in place”<\/p>\n

Ritual is essential because it is truly the pattern that connects. It provides communication at all levels – communication among all the systems within the individual human organism; between people within groups; between one group and another in a city and throughout all these levels between the human and the non-human in the natural environment. Ritual provides us with a tool for learning to think logically, analogically and ecologically as we move toward a sustainable culture. Most important of all, perhaps, during rituals we have the experience, unique in our culture, of neither opposing nature or trying to be in communion with nature; but of finding ourselves within nature, and that is the key to sustainable culture.<\/em><\/p>\n

More:<\/b> M. says that Dolores LaChapelle always reminded her a little of Felicitas Goodman<\/a>. Part of that was physical: both when we met them were no-nonsense elderly women who wore their hair in a single long braid. I wonder if they would have respected each other as rival shamans, or hated each other. <\/p>\n

Cross-posted to Nature Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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