Thru-Hiking Journal

How Backpacking Cerro Chirripó in Costa Rica Changed My Whole Dang Life It was autumn, 2018. My final year of college. Somewhere along the way, I’d realized that I was on track to graduate a semester early, and I wasn’t prepared for that, so I leapt at the opportunity to study abroad. I landed on a program in Costa Rica studying ecological resilience – a program far outside the scope of my special education and English literature majors. All I knew was that I wanted to be out