Going Longer: A Love/Hate Relationship with Backpacking
From the passionate essays I have read I am led to believe that there are people who find pure, blissful enjoyment from backpacking and wilderness camping. I don’t get it. I never…
From the passionate essays I have read I am led to believe that there are people who find pure, blissful enjoyment from backpacking and wilderness camping. I don’t get it. I never…
If anyone had told me 15 years ago that I would be dreaming of spending all my free time up north in the snow running sled dogs I would have…
I stood on the edge of the water with my feet buried in the cold sand and my heart beating in my ears. I paddled a few circles and realized…
It is late afternoon in Montana and it smells like earth and summer. Birds whistle and flies buzz. The sun and the PBR are taking their effect now as lazy…
The sensation of coming out of a dead faint never gets any easier. It never gets any less uncomfortable: the disorientation, the slow return to your senses, the wiggling of…
“Pull your body in close to the rock!” I hear Jonathan yell from below me. “What does that even mean?!” I yell back, my brake hand held firmly down. I…
My heart was pounding, my hands were sweating, and my breath was short. One of my best friends and I had just obtained backcountry permits to hike to the bottom…
My husband, Dave, and I spent a year in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness – September 23, 2015 to September 23, 2016. For those of you who are unfamiliar,…
“What was that?” my friend whispered, as we froze together in the fading light of the surrounding forest. We held our breaths for a moment before shakily letting them out…
“Have you been warned about the bear?” the ranger asked after we exchanged pleasantries? “Yes,” I said, “the ranger at the wilderness office told me all about her.” “Did they…