dolly sods wilderness area: june 2023

“What proves especially instructive to me in backpacking as a spiritual practice is how it surfaces the interior baggage I bring along on the trail. Entering the disarming silence of wilderness, neglected things rise to consciousness. Backpacking has as much to do with what I carry inside as with what goes in the pack. It connects me with woundedness as well as with wonder.”

—Belden Lane, Backpacking with the Saints