You’ve just woken up and you begin climbing out of your warm sleeping bag. You unzip your tent to be greeted by wet dewy grass and a valley that stretches

Coming from Illinois, I am not used to hills. I look ahead of my spinning front tire as the gravel road looms in front of me. From a distance, the

Imagine you wake up in the early morning. The moon is still out with a bit of morning dew covering everything around you and the sun slowly starts to creep

Excited anticipation built as I crept to the top of the final grassy hill before Deep Creek Canyon Pass. Up, over, and suddenly on the descent, a gust of wind

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While backpacking through the Scapegoat Wilderness, I became fully immersed in the environment around me. I was able to slow down and think critically about the intricate systems that allow

Sink into the moss on the riverbank. Green with many shades that compliment each other – floating on the surface, growing on the bank, smaller shrubs towering above them, but