Rock ’24 Written By: Art and Eleanor Friends and family, welcome to this final exped blog post! Crazy! That’s all! We’ve completed the itinerary. All things minus some packing and paperwork have been done. I’m feeling proud of all of us rock students, especially with how this group showed up in this last section: Cerro […]
Gap Rock ’24 Hello from Patagonia. On November 10th we touched down here after many hours of plane time. We were kindly greeted by the beautiful landscape of Patagonia and an unreal ferry ride across lake Buenos Aires to our base in Chile, Chico. After a couple days of lounging around and packing we headed
Greetings! This is Annie and I’m writing from HMI’s snow covered campus in Leadville. Trek did a 14 day backpacking loop through the Dark, Youngs, and Lean-To canyons in Utah. It rained the first few days, which made the river an unfortunate color of red/brown (we called it the Chocolate River), but we had beautiful
Written by: Santi and Jasper During the third section of our gap trip, we traveled to Indian Creek, Utah. With downcast eyes and heavy hearts we parted ways with the trek students. Gloomy weather and wet sandstone greeted us. Our first day was spent driving around Bears Ears National monument. We stopped at the Bears
By Art Couture and JD Wilson As we first arrived at HMI, feelings of being in an unfamiliar place arose in all of us. As our first days on campus went by, we began to learn some of the skills needed to have a comfortable time being outdoors for an extended time. Our first days
Gap Spring Trek Written by: Sofia and Sara Sofia: Dear Mamma Patagonia, Thank you for the past 79 days. Thank you for bringing me to these wonderful people. Thank you for the sun kissed cheeks and noses, the frozen boots, starlit nights, moonrises, sunrises over your snow covered peaks, evening meetings under the stars, early
Gap Spring Trek ’24 Written by: Rowan I found childlike joy in the NPI! In between glaciology classes, I was really into rocks. Like in the way my five year old nephew is obsessed with Paw Patrol and racing cars, I’m obsessed with rocks. Before and after our bountiful river crossings, at the proglacial lake,
Gap Spring Trek ’24 Written by: Sara Dear Cerro Castillo National Park, Somewhere in Chilean Patagonia while I was backpacking and camping with my friends, you taught me things. The type of knowledge that goes beyond academics made me grow as a student, leader, and human. Between all the ineffable landscapes and long days of hiking,
Spring Trek 2024 Written by: Arman There are two ways to ‘be’ in Spanish: ‘Ser’ and ‘Estar’. They represent the permanence and the impermanence of the states of being. As someone who has been afraid of so many things, Spanish (the language) and Chilean culture made my fears seem transient; whether it be it of
Fall Trek ’24 Written by: Diana Near the Carraterra de Austral, which is the highway through Chilean Patagonia, we set our camp after long, long hiking day through the Chacabuco Valley. We came out from the private 4-wheeler road winding not far away from Laguna de Guagua, our last night’s camp spot. We are staying
