Backpacking

Ben is a very active guy with a strong career and many life goals. He is currently working full time and attending classes to receive his MBA. Ben has always been involved in sports and fitness his entire life. He grew up playing basketball, baseball and lifting weights. He has backpacked in different countries and enjoys the outdoors. After high school, Ben enjoyed playing league softball and the challenge of bodybuilding. However, he had to stop playing softball because he was starting to…

death of my father. Or at least it felt like that at the time. I was actually sitting on a rock 50 miles outside of Billings, Montana, reading a tattered paperback that I had bought for five dollars at a gas station near Wilson, Wyoming. I was backpacking with a few friends who were napping under some fir trees. The spy novel—a genre not known for its intellectual depth––seemed just like another July book.…

numbing” plant at the Arboretum, and licking the bottom of daddy longlegs to see if it tastes like peppermint. Signing up for Orion was opening up the door to a new challenge that I have never experienced before. I have never gone hiking, let alone backpacking, nevertheless I gave the experience my all and what I got back from it was exponential. When faxing those final forms for this trip, I did not realize the amount of teamwork that would go into this experience. The moment that my name was…

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with my girlfriends. But this time I was the one alone – and on the verge of tears. Even more than being mad at my ex, I was mad at myself for wallowing over a man when life had something exciting in store for me: I was about to leave my job to go backpacking through Africa, a trip I’d dreamed about for years. Three more months and I’d be on the plane, out in the world, free. Why couldn’t I focus on that? At the church I’d grown up in, crying would have caused a scene. I remembered kneeling…

Getting where you need to be, while staying on the right track, is a key part of backpacking. A hiker can quickly become lost in dense backcountry, making outdoor navigation skills an important part to any wilderness trip. Modern GPS navigation systems are a great tool for finding your way, but, as with any device, they can fail, leaving you stranded without any means to navigate. It’s best to keep a handheld map and compass as a backup in your backpack. Study the terrain thoroughly to help you…

Experiential learning in school : Experiential education is the education that involves the process of learning through experience. It can also be deemed as hands on learning that takes place between a teacher and a student. It is also defined as learning through reflection. This term cannot be used for experiential learning as they do not have the same meaning; However, experiential learning is a part of experiential education. In one of the methodology from the Association for Experiential…

Wellington city in New Zealand has recently expanded its point of interests and increased its tourism potential. Being the capital city of New Zealand it embraces not only urban tourism but other features that make it more distinct then other cities. Wellington utilises combinations of different tourist ideas to increase the interest shown in it by tourists. This is shown by the significant growth of tourist activity in Wellington over the past decade. The total amount of international visitors…

In Jon Krakauer’s biographical tale into the wild, Chris McCandless struggles to follow a path of transcendental ideals by going off the grid soon after he graduates college. While on his journey, McCandless travels to beautiful landscapes and tries to live in self-sufficiency. However, this journey towards a higher spiritual living eventually leads him to his own demise. Reflecting upon McCandless story, his nomadic traveling was simply a search for balance between the spiritual and modern…

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