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Summer 2026 2nd Exped: Moose Sightings, Mount Shavano, and More!

2nd Exped, Elle Canarick We just arrived back from our second expedition, which was so much fun! It started off with a real bonding experience, as a little over an hour into our first hike, we got hailed on. When we arrived at our campsite, Dry Lake, we quickly assembled our kitchen tarps and managed to be somewhat-dry as we ate our dinner, despite the storm outside. My cook-group mate, Violet, made the most delicious cheesy pasta. Sitting under one tarp, all cooking and eating together, many of us found we could open up. This set us up for a close-knit second expedition, where we regularly all ate together.  On

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Semester 56 3rd Academic Block: Take the Leap, Trust the Process

3rd AB | Violet Wilson Going into the Fun Run, I felt a growing sense of trepidation. The people around me that morning could probably tell from the number of times I changed my outfit, how I agonized over what to have for breakfast, and my worry about my shoelaces being too short. I had run ten miles before coming to HMI, but never at altitude, and I had been injured. As we were leaving, someone wrote on the board “the next time you see this, you will have done it”. When I saw that message, I thought about how I could trip and fall, or start feeling sick, or get

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