The Mountaineers
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If you’re looking for community and a good ice breaker, consider a glacier. The hours of smiling through the slog and sore legs have a unique way of turning strangers into dear friends.
-Skye Michel, Editor
This edition’s stories explore how glaciers – and our landscapes more broadly – connect and move us. As the backdrop to many of our Pacific Northwest adventures, glaciers fuel our community-forming experiences, challenge our recreation skills, and test our trust in ourselves and each other. As the source of life-sustaining resources, they nourish the landscapes where we gather and play. And as companions on our trips, they request we look after them as well, inspiring creative responses to the urgent need for practices and policies that better support their persistence.
You don’t have to toil your way up a glacier for it to leave its mark. Whether admiring them up close, or appreciating them from afar through the pages of this edition, glaciers cultivate cherished relationships between people and places – ones that stick with us before we ever enter and long after we leave the alpine.
