outside reading #3

12/10/15

 

For my last outside reading, I read a trail journal by a woman with the name of Wildflower She was retracing the same path she took a year beforehand in Colorado. However, a year before, her path was covered in snow whereas in this journal, it was a clear and sunny path. She analyzed parts of the hike that she struggled with, and was able to see the path in a much different light. During her struggle, she notes that she paused for ten whole minutes, just to absorb the moment and place she was in. It did not matter to her that she was having a hard time trekking up the mountain, she was perfectly content to just take her surroundings in and pause the hike. She also notes that she did not stop to eat, but stopped often to gaze and hydrate. "I don't know when I will have the opportunity to return to these Rocky Mountains, so I did not want to descend." When she eventually did descend, she ended her journal with the word 'sigh' and then proclaimed how much she loves those mountains.