Eleanor Babcock: The Beauty of Backpacking
“Look down at your legs,” Isa’s positive voice exclaimed. “They brought you here!” Twelve days hiking through the chocolate silted waters of the Dirty Devil River Canyon had induced sore
Eleanor Babcock: Rocky Capsules of Time
A short, toe-numbing wade across the chai tea latte textured Dirty Devil River on this clear morning was as far as our feet needed to take us away from our
Zoe: From Finite to Flash Floods– Experiences with Water in Horseshoe Canyon
In Horseshoe Canyon the traces of water can be found everywhere. In the rippling waves on the sandy washes, and in the different forms of damp compacted earth, much easier
Garrett Hartley : Time Set in Stone
Walking through the icky sticky mud and the sinking sand dunes of the Dirty Devil River, one can take a trip through time. When I’m not busy falling into riverbed
Ella Mighell: Rainbows of the Dirty Devil
Eight days into our sandal and sock slodge through the Dirty Devil, we left behind a campsite with an endangered Mexican Spotted Owl and fossilized Grallator tracks, headed for higher
Isa Caliandro: Reading Between the Lines
Looking up the fence the differences on either side were subtle at first, yet the closer I looked the more obvious they became. On the right there were grasses, hillsides
Anna Martone: The Sounds of Silence
HHEEELLOOO HELLLOO hellloo hello………When you speak to the canyon, the canyon speaks back, echoing down through layers of Navajo sandstone. Now stop, stand still and listen. The silence will move
Rachel Bowanko: Unexpected Discoveries
When I was first instructed to find a plant that I did not know the name of, observe it for an hour, and then identify it, I assumed that the
Devon Calvin: Lessons from Munching Burnt Quinoa
There exists some sacred, indefinable core between people who you have munched burnt quinoa with, slept beneath shooting stars and howling coyotes, and shared alpenglow sunsets with. Between our group
Ben Warzon: The Uplift of Education
We often spend our days of academia sedentary, stimulating only our brains, and that’s on the best days. For many of us on this course, sitting in one place being