Tools for tough times - Get outside to build your good side. Check out these super strategies for shedding stress and increasing resilience and wellbeing. Move naturally – moving naturally by walking, biking, swimming, or going for hikes can improve health markers in a person like blood pressure, heart-rate, blood chemistry, sleep, and weight Moving … Continue reading Take Your Meds Outside!
Into the Wilderness
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In 1914, Ernest Shackleton and his team of 26 scientists, sailors, and explorers - and a stowaway - embarked on a dangerous mission to dogsled across Antarctica. In the days before radio, even if everything went as planned this would be risky, stretching the limits of human endurance. Everything did not go as planned. Their … Continue reading Gotta Minute?
Into the Wilderness
Image via Timothy Denney, Mt Dana, Yosemite National Park “Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.” ― Sigurd Olson. Photo looking toward the crest of the Sierra Nevada and Mount Abbott and its environs from Pioneer … Continue reading Into the Wilderness
Into the Wilderness
Image via Timothy Denney, Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite Wallace Stegner, who is known as a novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, wrote these words in his famous, "Wilderness Letter," “Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country … Continue reading Into the Wilderness
Into the Wilderness
Author and essayist Loren Eiseley once told us, “It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.” Indeed, how commonplace it is. It is into the wilderness that we go when … Continue reading Into the Wilderness
Into the Wilderness
Image via Timothy Denney, Dark Canyon, Utah Here is a little wilderness inspiration as we slip deeper into the Winter. These are pictures from a wilderness trip in July 2019 to the White Cloud Peaks in the Salmon River country of central Idaho. One of my favorite “secret spots” in the wild western places. Read … Continue reading Into the Wilderness