Hitchcock Center for the Environment

When Hitchcock Center’s Monya Relles talks about their time on the Appalachian Trail this summer, people are often surprised to hear Monya hiked solo. But Monya says they were hardly ever alone, even while hiking fourteen mile days, foraging for food and water, and sleeping under the stars.

If we delve a little deeper into the idea of solitude in nature, the insidious rhetoric of colonialism starts to reveal itself: https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/earth-matters/alone-in-the-wilderness/