Jim Stiles, founder of Moab’s The Canyon County Zephyr, has passed away. Jim was a friend of the late Ed Abbey. He was a former seasonal ranger with the NPS, an author, writer, longtime contributor at High Country News, newspaperman, environmentalist and wilderness defender.
Life is a long walk forward thru the cars of a passenger train each filled with; strangers whose stories we never learn, dear friends we long remember and passing acquaintances whose names & faces we take in like a breath and soon breathe away.... So many cars, so many passages."