April 2020

Social Isolation

This is a practice in response to the global pandemic. It is not new, for it weighs heavily in traditional backpacking procedure and ethics. It has two main goals as it pertains to the outbreak of Covid-19.To Foster a solitary Backcountry expedition.To mitigate the exposure to human contact. The practice is comprised of two methodologies. The application of soft/interpersonal skills and the utilization of hard/technical backcountry skill sets. These are experiential learning processes that must […]