REIさんのインスタグラム写真 - (REIInstagram)「Unlike so many people I know, love and work with, my early years weren’t filled with your typical outdoor adventures. I didn’t grow up sleeping outside on weekends or hiking on public lands. I went on my first camping trip on my 23rd birthday. I backpacked for the first time shortly before turning 24 (with NONE of the correct gear, I might add). But looking back now—with a better understanding of what it really means to be an outdoor participant—I realize that I’ve always been outdoorsy in my own way. For me, participating outside as a kid meant catching lightning bugs in my backyard with my brothers. It meant riding sleds down the very few hills we were able to find in our Ohio hometown. It meant fishing with my dad and, later on, with guys I would date through high school and college. It meant swimming in muddy lakes that my friends and I lovingly called “beaches” because that’s what they felt like to us. It meant walking barefoot in the grass on sticky summer nights and watching families of white-tailed deer from the kitchen window. It meant trying to catch crawdads with my bare hands, gathering buckeyes every fall and learning how to properly forage for morel mushrooms. Growing up in Ohio didn’t equip me with sick snowboarding skills, and despite my best efforts, I’m still not the quickest person on the trail. But I’ve always been my own kind of outdoorsy, and I’m grateful for that. Story and photo: co-op member @sarahgrothjan」5月21日 9時52分