Student reflections from HMI Gap’s Fall 2020 “Wilderness and Conservation in The American West” semester. Written by: Zackery Stone “How are you going to use the bathroom?” It was perhaps the most common question I received when telling family and friends about my coming semester in the backcountry with HMI. At the time, my best […]
Student reflections from a 14-day backpacking trip through the Sawatch Range near Leadville, CO. Written by Emma Barker and Ruby Platt “F-Trek 1” (short for “Fall Wilderness & Conservation Semester in the American West”) returned from our adventure in the Sawatch just two days ago. Among the 14 days packed full of wonderful memories, there
Student reflections from HMI Gap’s “Climbing and Conservation in the American West” semester. written by: Noah Stiegler and Sabine Blumenthal Our group – “F-Rock” (short for “Rock Climbing & Conservation in the American West”) – just returned from our first exped in the Sawatch Mountains of Colorado. We backpacked through the Mount Massive Wilderness, stopping
Written by: Becca Schild, Co-founder of HMI Gap In Your Stoke Won’t Save Us, published in the March issue of the High Country News, Ethan Linck elegantly distills hundreds of thousands of Instagrams of adventurous people in dramatic landscapes into a single phrase: “Stoke has become an ethos.” Critical of this trend, he goes on
