About

FAKE MOUNTAIN is an irreverent travel blog about the modern, human struggle to reconnect with nature. Many of the photos depict a denigrated, hyperreal, or fake nature. Thanks for stopping by!

We believe we make contact with the wild, but this is an illusion. . . we accept a reduced category of experience, a semblance of the wild nature, a fake.  – Jack Turner (The Abstract Wild)

Mark S Bailen is a writer, illustrator, and fake-nature photographer. He appears in the above photo. To contact him, email his first name at this domain.