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On Sundays, they set up camp chairs in what they say is a bid to reclaim park space.

At the very front of the line, Sharon Anderson waited under a blanket on a camp chair.

“The people that were killed here were left here,” said Spilsbury, sitting at dusk in a camp chair nestled among the trees.

Clark, who also led atheist camping trips to Death Valley and Anza Borrego, tipped back in a camp chair one morning as he laid out plans for the next few days.

“It’s better than a camp chair,” she said, of the seating arrangement, “And it’s poetic.”