Contemplative Hiking

The idea that a 10 or 12 year old girl would want to advertise her eco-consciousness is saying something.

The beauty of this place is in its unbroken, green landscape and sense of expansiveness. The sky here is as wide as the ground, and invites you to imagine a time when there were no houses, no power lines, no cows and no cars—only grass, bison and small clusters of tee-pees where Plains Indians went about their lives.

This is a great contemplative hike for children and families. It doesn’t need to be silent. Location: Between Eldorado Springs and South Boulder. Directions: Take Highway 93 from Golden or Boulder, turn west on CO-170, go 1.7 miles to the South Mesa trailhead. Park on the north side. Duration: Approximately 2 hours Route: from the [...]

But can a tree communicate with a person through some sort of energetic or psychic capacity? You can try this game to find out.

There’s a secret world that exists that we can’t see or will never see, but there’s evidence of it on the Bobcat Ridge Natural Area.

Contemplative activities and discussions for winter hikes with children, especially older children and pre-teens.

Richard Louv states in his book, Last Child in the Woods, “The shift in our relationship to the natural world is startling, even in settings that one would assume are devoted to nature. Not that long ago, summer camp was a place where you camped, hiked in the woods, learned about plants and animals, or [...]