This autoethnographic research project is located in the fertile literary world of authors Gary Snyder and J. Donald Walters’s historic Bald Mountain land cooperative in Northern CA. This is the site of Walters’s Ananda Meditation Retreat, and Snyder’s Ring of Bones Zendo. The project takes a creative embodied approach to analyzing and contributing to this location’s literature of place through the genres of creative nonfiction and interpretive mapping. Using critical walking methodology, the author juxtaposes current phenomena, with memories of the years she lived on site as a child. This project foregrounds the productive inquiry of process-led research in which the author asks herself: what are the pluralities of this place, and how can I resituate and transform my understanding of them into an assemblage of peaceful co-existence?