The Great Outdoors

Trashing the environment

I OFTEN SAY hiking has done wonders for my mental health. A combination of physical exercise, natural beauty and an appreciation of little things like the placement of a bench atop a particularly strenuous hill…

Often, humans interact with the landscape charmingly: desire paths diverging off-trail to a beautiful viewpoint, tyre swings in trees, the remains of a fire pit surrounded by stones marking the perfect camping

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