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Salmon & Circumambulation on Mt. Tam
Sun, May 03
|Mill Valley
Connect deeply with redwoods and salmon watershed through this curated experience of contemplative hiking, wild food dining, and joyful dancing. (Image of Mt. Tamalpais by artist Tom Killion)
Time & Location
May 03, 2026, 4:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Mill Valley, Mill Valley
About the event
We - all living creatures on earth - are interconnected. The commercial fishing season for California salmon has been closed for the past two years. This is in large part due to habitat degradation. 97% of salmon in California have disappeared. 97% of our redwoods have been logged. This experience draws inspiration from wild salmon’s remarkable life cycle and their symbiotic relationship with the mighty redwood, as well as the tradition of “Circumambulation of Mt. Tam". The original circumambulation on Mt. Tam was in 1965, when the Beat poets Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, and Philip Whalen drew on a fusion of spiritual traditions to walk clockwise around the mountain, inspired by Tibetan and Indian practices of walking clockwise–“the way of the sun”–around a venerated object. They stopped at stations along the way for meditation and chanting.
This curated dinner event will feature a contemplative hike in through the redwoods, followe…