The Fugawi of the Adirondacks
There’s this stupid joke that aboriginal peoples’ original name for the Europeans was ‘Fugawi’ because everywhere they went they’d say “we’re the fugawi!”
Har har har. On Saturday they were talking about me.
Today, my arms are criss-crossed by tiny scratches and welts that resemble some form of strange ritual scarring.
On Saturday I climbed my first Adirondacks high peak.



