Tag: hiking

• The Delicate Arches

  We hiked in a 108 degree Utah sun. The journey itself a sort of tribute to 2 sandstone sentinels of the desert. But what is heat to 65 million years of stratified rock? To Earthen towers whittled into brittled brilliance by erosion, by wind & rain?

  Joshua Khatena

  June 20, 2021

  America, Backpacking, Blog, earth, hiking, journey, National Park, Nature, Road trip, traveler, utah, wanderlust, writer

  backpacker, Change, desert, evolution, hiking, Nature, Oneness, Photography, Travel, Universe, utah, wanderlust

• Chain-Chain Change

  Hikers used the chain at Angel’s Landing because it was a 1,488-foot fall to the ground, but also because the chain existed. Simply looking at the chain caused many people to become fearful. For inexperienced climbers- having a “safety net” of sorts was important. Of course I went off leash most of the time. Not…

  Joshua Khatena

  May 29, 2021

  Adventurer, America, Backpacking, Blog, Consciousness, Discover, Empowerment, Freedom, growth, hope, journey, Liberation, Philosophy, Plato, self-care, transformation, Travel, trust, utah, wanderlust, writer, Zion National Park

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• Setting the Record Strait Part 2

  I was at Mt. Shasta writing about one of the most surreally difficult nights of my life, right before another strange event occurred on this mountain. Truth can be a stranger dance than any of our fictions. You see, I slipped through the trapdoor of my mind after a BLM celebration, on the night of…

  Joshua Khatena

  April 9, 2021

  Adventurer, black lives matter, california, Consciousness, Existentialism, Gay, growth, Healing, hope, Mental Health, mount shasta, Mountain, Nature, Path, Philosophy, Photography, quarantine, Questioning, self-care, Social Justice, soul, the Universe, transformation, wanderlust, writer

  Author, Bipolar, Blm, blogger, Consciousness, doubt, empowered, Gay, hiking, hope, life, mount shasta, mountains, mystic, purpose, quarantine, searching, Social change, Social Justice, transformation, Travel, Universe

• The Great Soul Kitchen

  

  This year of chosen solitude has been a solace- a beautiful clearing in the wake of abandoning attachments. To walk in mountains is to walk in part of your soul. Returning to your breath is a returning to your life in this present moment. Everything else is an adornment distracting us from the real essence…

  Joshua Khatena

  September 6, 2019

  Adventurer, Backpacking, Consciousness, Empowerment, Existentialism, Forest, forgiveness, mount hood, Mountain, Nature, Oregon, Philosophy, Photography, self-care, soul, thankfulness, the Universe, Travel, wanderlust

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