Author: pattibird

I am a woman of a certain age (wink, wink) who has tent camped all her life. When other kids went to summer Rec camp, Mom took my sister and I tent camping, for weeks at a time. In my early twenties I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail from the Sierra Buttes to the Bridge of the Gods. Camping always being my preferred vacation. That is until I became inflicted with an autoimmune disease and the emotional roller coaster intrinsic to chronic illness. Three summers ago, with a little gumption, a paper Forest Service map (yes, I said paper) and my furry BFF, I bumped down a dirt road that lead me in to the Klamath Mountains. I’ve been looking for Bigfoot ever since.

Beyond the Street Light – An Exercise in Darkness

January 24, 2020

Listening Deeply – Mad River levee walk – Blue Lake10 pm on a cool drizzly night, when I got the courage to step from the familiarity of the streetlight into the hard shadows and beyond, I was rewarded with a river side song… (turn the volume up)In those dark moments it was the Deep Listening … More Beyond the Street Light – An Exercise in Darkness

Beyond the Street Light – An Exercise in Darkness

January 17, 2020

I’ve said it several times and, I truly mean it when I say… “I’m scared of the dark”.My heart races, I get agitated and jumpy, and basically, if when I’m out camping, I just hide in my tent until morning, (still after two full summers of pitching my tent in the wilds!).Paradoxically, it is also exactly … More Beyond the Street Light – An Exercise in Darkness