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Healed By Nature: Hiking Bear Lake To Fern Lake In Rocky Mountain National Park
I’m sitting here in my campsite, a fire crackling faintly in the background. The site is situated across from a meadow and the stars are putting on quite a show. When I lay down on my picnic table, the satellites make continual arcs across the sky as I try to …
A Hug From The Sky: Hiking Clouds Rest
Every time I’m in Yosemite, I can’t help but think about John Muir. His footprints are all over the wilderness that exists there. Part of me feels really conflicted about this because even though he gets much of the credit for the conservation of that land, it couldn’t have come …
The Ache That Nature Fills: Chasing Life Outside
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.” ~John Muir These days I find myself aching to be out in nature. The freedom that exists in the open air on a mountain peak is …