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The last time I felt this hot and sweaty: Thailand haha. What’s wrong with you, Colorado. 🥵 _ 📷: @dylangordon | #thailand @thenorthface_climb #sunsetvibes #saltlife

“Hail Storm with Rainbow and Sun: There’s a dog tied by his leash in a camp across the way. The hail, some nearly half an inch wide, shoots and bounces off of everything: the soft grass and wildflowers, the small boulders camouflaged by lichen, the cars and the tents, and the dog — it keeps walking in circles around the camp, irritated, poked by sky. Thunder startles the wind and the wind startles us. The sun is still piercing from the West. We’ve all huddled into our nests and homes — me, in the van comfortably staring out the window. _ When the hail stops the soft static of rain is strikingly smooth. What ruckus the hail was. Yet the dog still wanders in circles at quick tempo. _ The cumulonimbus clouds above us are bright and rushing. They expand, morph, bulge out in layers, are forced both upwards and down. The rain returns. The buttresses in the sky disintegrate on top of us. In the distance, there are other clouds. Long, stretched out. Like a stampede of white sky creatures, feathered and whisky, charging heads into the wind towards the sun. Water glistens across the Earth. The dirt road has turned into a map of tributaries and alluvial fans. A young boy rides his mountain bike back and forth through puddles, sunset light against his hooded back. The dog is silently rowdy, intrigued now by the boy. _ I’m not sure how to describe all the cloudscapes. They are as varied in shape and density as the blotches of water soaking into the boy’s clothes. They change shape in the wind. They glisten differently in the sun than the rest of the sky. They exist so briefly in this layer of time. Expanded and expressed by shifts of bodies and the wind they shape. A blotch. A splash. A mystery caught in rotation. Peeled. Lifted. Pressed. Kneaded soft into the soil. Into us. Into me. The one taking note of this brief gift of hail and restless light.” - From the journal, 7.6.19 _ #nmlff #outdoorwomen #writerslife #vedauwoo #stormclouds #poetry #keepitwild #bivytales #womenwhoexplore #naturetherapy #journaling

3 YEARS of being hitched! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Last two photos are from our wedding day (by @kimballisms and @cheynelempe respectively [sorry for the low-quality copies]). _ #marriage #adventurecouple #anniversary #keepitwild #outdoorpeople #liveclimbrepeat #keepitwild #naturetherapy #loveisintheair #defendersoffun #fortheloveofclimbing #adventurewedding #climberswedding #neverstopexploring

Summer update #2: I scouted both north and south trailheads to the Wind River High Route with the goal of previewing the 13’ers that start and end the route. Fastpacking conditions right now are...questionable. Snowline is around 10,000 feet, deeper in the range...high water crossings... _ We made the decision to push back our endeavor one week - so as of right now we’re looking at August 13th (weather permitting). If we go and have to bail, then we plan to try again the first week of September. I can’t believe we’re nearly halfway through July... And bittersweetly, @sstroeer has a badass race across the Gobi Desert mid-August, so it’s just @emma.athena.mure and myself now. 💪🏽 _ And as for Santa Fe, if you didn’t see my Insta Stories, then there’s too much to explain now haha. Basically our plans had to change and we didn’t get to do the Skyline Route. Nonetheless, training has been going well enough! Yeeeeeeewww!! _ #windriverrange #adventurereadyspirit #shoshoneland #arapaholand #keepitwild #nmlff #outdoorwomen #womenwhorun #neverstopexploring #bivytales #windriverhighroute #naturetherapy #downsmountain @thegearjunkie @scarpana @lekiusa @wigwamsocks @suunto

If you haven’t already, check out @eliza_earle ‘s recent website overhaul. She’s an incredible human being and talented photographer, with an amazing appetite for cookies and cobbler and seriously just all good things in life. Anyone need an adventure photographer?? ❤️ Miss you, Eliza! _ #photographer #outdoorwomen #womenwhoexplore #keepitwild #sheadventures #sheexplores #nmlff #defendersoffun #nonstopadventure #dirtbagdreams #climbingphotography #trailrunningphotography #liveclimbrepeat #liverunrepeat #adventurephotography

I am strong. I am strong. I am strong. I am healthy. I am healthy. I am healthy. _ #mantras #trailmantras #adventurereadyspirit #puebloland #jumanosland #keepitwild #nmlff #outdoorwomen #womenwhoexplore #bivytales #talesfromthetrail #backpacking #backcountry #santafe #naturetherapy #fortheloveofnature #sufferfest #ultrarunning #reflections #texture

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When you travel you open yourself up. To the land. To other people’s paths. And you change. Or at least I hope you do. Even if it’s through memory alone. When I take a photo I want it to reflect the change in me. _ El desierto de Sonora //Tohono O’odham / Seri / Yaqui / Pima _ #nmlff #outdoorwomen #womenwhoexplore #liveyourart #saguaro #sonorandesert #bivytales #writerslife #keepitwild #naturetherapy

Thank you to those who continue to follow and read along. Last year ended up being a quiet year for BivyTales, but this year will hopefully be much different. Experimenting and engaging with more collaboration across various mediums, I hope to share more genuine art and prose. Being so small and without funding is of course the first and main obstacle, which is why most passion projects, like this very platform, easily dissipate. Refocusing my intentions, I might have to redefine what BivyTales even is, what it represents, or what and how it serves the community. Since I cannot pay contributors, I think the best thing to do is distill the brand back to its origins: a personal blog and a place for people to find me, browse my portfolio, etc. Is this the right move? Lend me your thoughts! - Sara _ #liveyourart #bivytales #keepitwild #writerslife #womenwhowrite #artforartssake @bivytales @heysarawrr

Squeezin’ out of 2018 and only ready for more! Happy 2019! _ #outdoorwomen #naturetherapy #liveyourart #bivytales #desertdream #keepitwild #fortheloveofclimbing #womenwhoclimb #rockclimbingwomen #girlswhoclimb #nmlff #womenwhoexplore #tradisrad #offwidth #adventurereadyspirit 📷: @moonofhisheart

Hey there, moon. _ #naturetherapy #travel #indiancreek #bearsears #liveyourart #bivytales #keepitwild #desert #desertdream #utahgram #landscape #moon 📷: @heysarawrr

How many times can you write about the same place? I’m about to head back to the desert... _ #writerslife #bivytales #adventurereadyspirit #trailrunningviews #desertvibes #keepitwild #naturetherapy 📷: @heysarawrr

Junglescape // Thailand // Feelin’ green. _ #travel #thailand #jungle #bivytales #naturetherapy #keepitwild #writerslife #liveyourart #challengeyourcomfortzones #outdoorwomen 📷: @heysarawrr

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