Minnewaska State Park Hike
While on military terminal leave in the summer of 2014, I was having a conversation with my cousin’s husband about hiking. I mentioned to him how we should take his 9 year old son hiking. A few days later he had the hiking trip all planned out with a map of the actual state park in NY. One of his coworkers that goes camping with his sons suggested Minnewaska State Park in upstate NY. I was excited to go hiking with them. Because while serving in the US Army I had trained in the woods but it was all about work; this time to me it was about enjoying nature and everything it has to offer.
The actual day of the hiking trip, we met up before 07:00 A.M. everything was planned just right for the trip. While driving to Minnewaska State Park, I would look out the window of the car and appreciate how peaceful everything was. When we were arriving to the town right outside the state park we decided to get some breakfast at a local. When we drove up to the diner, I saw …show more content…
We even thought that an animal was following us, so I would tell them it’s a liger following us. It didn’t feel like I was in upstate New York, so many years that I stayed up there in the Army base. I never had the chance to appreciate beauty the state has to offer. There weren’t any strange smell in my opinion, breathing the fresh air was great. It actually reminded me of the trial runs we would do in the Army.
Doing this hike was a great feeling of accomplishment that I had never experience in my youth. But doing it as an adult and teaching my cousin’s son about hiking brought me closer to him and to nature. The hike taught me that we need to get back to our roots and not depend on technology so much, we need have to teach survival skills to our youth just in case of an emergency. Just like the many stories of the indigenous people of the Americas, especially the stories I had heard while living in Peru as a
While on military terminal leave in the summer of 2014, I was having a conversation with my cousin’s husband about hiking. I mentioned to him how we should take his 9 year old son hiking. A few days later he had the hiking trip all planned out with a map of the actual state park in NY. One of his coworkers that goes camping with his sons suggested Minnewaska State Park in upstate NY. I was excited to go hiking with them. Because while serving in the US Army I had trained in the woods but it was all about work; this time to me it was about enjoying nature and everything it has to offer.
The actual day of the hiking trip, we met up before 07:00 A.M. everything was planned just right for the trip. While driving to Minnewaska State Park, I would look out the window of the car and appreciate how peaceful everything was. When we were arriving to the town right outside the state park we decided to get some breakfast at a local. When we drove up to the diner, I saw …show more content…
We even thought that an animal was following us, so I would tell them it’s a liger following us. It didn’t feel like I was in upstate New York, so many years that I stayed up there in the Army base. I never had the chance to appreciate beauty the state has to offer. There weren’t any strange smell in my opinion, breathing the fresh air was great. It actually reminded me of the trial runs we would do in the Army.
Doing this hike was a great feeling of accomplishment that I had never experience in my youth. But doing it as an adult and teaching my cousin’s son about hiking brought me closer to him and to nature. The hike taught me that we need to get back to our roots and not depend on technology so much, we need have to teach survival skills to our youth just in case of an emergency. Just like the many stories of the indigenous people of the Americas, especially the stories I had heard while living in Peru as a