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The Hiking Initiative
 
 

Our Mission:

Educate, Encourage, and Empower.

We help people speak up for public lands while sharing stories of adventure, gear reviews, and outdoor advocacy. Showing that anyone can share their love of the outdoors. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
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What We Strive For

The outdoors has no age limit, no gender requirements, no bias. As a human collective, we should follow these same steps to ensure that everyone has equal access to our outdoors spaces. If you don't know where to start, we want to help guide you.  

 

 

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The companies and organizations we support have a mission to help us all become better stewards of our lands. 

 

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#ICanSeeLWCF from the Three Sisters Wilderness. The Land + Water Conservation Fund is less than 100 days from sunsetting unless Congress approves to reauthorize it (hopefully for good!) Starting now, I encourage each of you to email your Reps letting them know that you support the permanent authorization of LWCF and going to the @wildernesssociety website which has an interactive map of LWCF projects by county. ______ Where can you see #LWCF ? Tag #ICanSeeLWCF so we can come together to share the impact LWCF has made on our communities.
The boarder between old growth and previous burn. A division like this is the only apparent division I see fitting in the wilderness. A division naturally drawn through an imaginary line in the wild. There is no, you belong behind this line and I belong in front of this line. No, we are equal counterparts in nature, using our individual strengths and pursuits to succeed. There are always going to be boundaries, and there are always going to be laws, but ethics and morality is what make those laws just for the good of the cause. Just because it is a law, doesn’t make it the right law. Which is why it is so imperative to continue to mentor and provide leadership to our future conservation leaders for public lands ✌🏻 ⛰ 🌲#ItsYourOregon
When you forget that it’s mosquito season, the travel size just won’t do!
Sorry for the awkward foot photo, but getting dirty in my Chacos make feel like I’m one more step towards connecting with nature. The webbing is beginning to wear and to be honest, I’m not really sure how it hasn’t torn yet after hiking over Central Oregon dust, rocks + snow! Who else agrees? 🙌🏻 P.S. those tan lines are getting wild! #thechacolife #chaconation