We continue to prepare for students to visit us from Northern Virginia. I am really looking forward to nurture these students with nature! In the meantime I participated in a backpacking trip with a focus on Leave No Trace training. This is a concept that I have always tried to practice, but never realized that there is so much more I can do to Leave No Trace when I visit wilderness areas. There are seven principles practiced and you can find out more about them here-Leave No Trace. The backpacking trip was great! We camped out overnight and I made some more new ranger friends. We hiked the Rose River trail, which is a nice hike with plenty of water views. This is the first wilderness trip that I've been on and the first time that I camped out without a tent. We had these really cool sleeping nets that we used to keep the bugs at bay. The rangers continue to amaze me with their wealth of knowledge of history, plants and animals.
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