Trust Your Gut, Change Your Mind: Conversations with Community by Miles Foley
“You know you’re right, but you have to understand the forces against you,” Elizabeth Wood explained to us as we sat around a table of muffins and orange juice in
To Make Change You Have to Make Fun by Annika Mannix
“It’s not worth it if it isn’t fun – Elizabeth Woods, 6/16/25 On Monday, we departed our campsite in Roundup and headed to Elizabeth Woods’s house, a five minute ride
“She’s a Dirty Devil”: Resilience on the River by Ariana Brennhofer
The Dirty Devil, aptly named by Dunn during Major John Wesley Powell’s 1896 expedition of the Colorado River, is a 200 mile meandering stretch of chocolatey brown waters. It was
The Rock is my Old Friend: Intimacy with Land on the Colorado Plateau by Emma Belén Price-Daválos
Cradled by crumbling walls of deep red sandstone that shield the corners of a vast blue sky, a group of 10 slightly sunburnt and sore-footed backpackers follow the gentle meander
Perseverance On the Colorado Plateau by Jonathan Robinson
The Colorado Plateau, with its unforgiving terrain and dry, arid landscape, is not a place many people would think to inhabit. Despite this, many people have successfully called the Colorado
Three Things To Know Before Your Next 14 Day Backpacking Trip in Horseshoe Canyon by Paige Ptak
Scrambling down the dusty orange Navajo sandstone into the open body of Horseshoe Canyon for the first time will be intimidating, exhilarating and even a hint nerve-racking. If you have
The Painful Truth of America’s Colonization by Maya Hesse
We were sitting at our campsite, cradled between the beehive domes of the Navajo sandstone, eating warm bowls of tortilla soup. As the sun slowly sank behind the smooth rocks,
Weaving a Future by Abby Olson
How do we measure knowledge? Is it by a test score, a degree, or the amount of scientific names one can memorize? I would argue none of the above, because
Gender and Survival by Miles Foley
In our third section of the Colorado Plateau course, we’ve been meeting with many people who have unique understandings of and connections to this landscape. Three wonderful families in the
Systems of Horseshoe Canyon by Chloe Brackenbury
Here we are, three days into our backpacking journey, and Horseshoe Canyon decides to welcome us with a spring blizzard! We crawled out of the cocoons of our sleeping bags