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  • Ice encases trees on the shores of Lake Superior

    Haunted Season: a note from pandemic winter

    February 19, 2021

    Winter is for hauntings. It is the season of candle light and barely days and long, cold nights. A dark sky spits snow and trees dance in the wind like spirits, clattering on the roof…

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  • Detail of an Armenian Monastery, Noravank

    Thicker Gravities: on my year in Armenia

    February 19, 2021

    Seda met me in the muddy road of a village near Armenia’s capital, Yerevan. She spoke and I blinked back at her, 23 and wide-eyed. Seda laughed and whipped out Google Translate and her high…

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send this to your friend who hates living here🤷 send this to your friend who hates living here🤷🏼‍♀️ #midwest #adventure #hiking
that $455 permit😅🌵🥾🏕 honestly, I think that $455 permit😅🌵🥾🏕 honestly, I think the cost of the permit to backpack Havasupai is totally worth it. The Havasu Canyon Trail runs through the Havasupai Tribal Nation Land, and all of the Grand Canyon is the homeland of the Havasupai people, and has been for the last 1000+ years. In the 1900s, the Havasupai were forcibly removed from the rest of the canyon by the National Parks Service separated from their gardens and cut off access to hunting. In 1975, the Havasu falls area and campground was returned to the Tribe, on the stipulation that the area remain open to tourists. a remote community located 8 miles into the canyon with no road access, the Havasupai People had very few options *other* than tourism. Fast forward 50 years to today. The hike down is beautiful, with well-maintained facilities and a lively campground. The whole experience is incredible, and I would easily recommend it! the $455 permit seems pricey, but is totally reasonable when considering the effort it takes to maintain the popular campground 10 miles deep into the Grand Canyon, and the needs of the community to maintain it. #havasupai #arizona #grandcanyon #backpacking
last winter up north❄️🫶 last winter was one last winter up north❄️🫶 last winter was one of the warmest winters on record up here with record low snow— I still managed some wintery adventures, but it definitely wasn’t the same as usual 1- hiking the sea caves trail on the Bayfield Peninsula 📸 @rachel_moon__ 2- winter at High Falls on the Baptism River— a classic favorite of mine 🫶 micro spikes needed 3- exploring frozen river canyons ❄️ 📸 @rachel_moon__ the rivers only freeze enough to hike on for a short window in the winter so it’s best to do a lot of research before frozen river hiking/ skiing and consult a local on real time conditions. You can find more info on frozen river hikes on the North Shore in my exploring the north shore ebook, which is emailed to you for free when you sign up for my newsletter 🫶 4- winter kayaking on superior 5 & 6- exploring the Keweenaw Peninsula with @visit_keweenaw 7- hiking up the Gunflint Trail Region 📸 @rachel_moon__ 9- winter day hiking setup 🫶 I’ve been working on expanding and updating all of my winter hiking resources! Find these in my bio 🔗 under “free trail guides” 10- another shot from my visit to the Keweenaw last winter, this one didn’t make it off my camera in the initial cut 🙈 11- sunset on the lake 12- a fire 13- caribou rock trail 📸 @rachel_moon__ 14- snow & @stegermukluks 15- another shot that didn’t make it off the camera until now, this one from when my sister visited 16- a small roadside waterfall in the Keweenaw 📍Anishinaabe nation cultural and traditional homelands
skiing, snowshoeing & winter camping, oh my ✨⛺ skiing, snowshoeing & winter camping, oh my ✨⛺️❄️ would you ever go winter camping?! My first winter camping trip was a little miserable, but I’ve warmed up to the idea :) fingers crossed that I make it out on a little winter adventure this winter❄️⛺️ #minnesota #northshore #winter
back in the Midwest & happy 🫶✨🌈 I first po back in the Midwest & happy 🫶✨🌈 I first posted this reel a year ago, in the depths of a move from the PNW, which I failed to make a home back to the Midwest. My time in the PNW was a really strange experience, and a reminder that building a place up in your head only sets you up for failure. The PNW wasn’t the place for me (it might be for you)— and that’s okay. I’ve found more and easier access wild spaces and adventure in the Midwest than I ever did in the PNW, and the upper Midwest really, truly feels like home to me. This reel was never meant to “dunk on” the PNW, just to represent my experience there which was objectively negative. Overall though, I think it’s really beautiful and special that different people are drawn to and find a perfect place to live in different places throughout the world— Life would be so boring if the epitome of happiness for everyone was life in the Pacific Northwest. Anyhow, find me now not on the west coast, but on the south shore 🫶 #midwest #pnw #outdoors
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