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🥾hike-oos: short-form poems documenting long-form adventures. poetry in motion 🏕️

A giant fallen maple leaf. Green at the tips, yellow and the middle and brown near the stem. Held up on a gray September day.
Trail to the summit of Mount Mansfield crosses a gravel mountain road. The path snakes through the trees. A mountain top summit in the distance. Mount Mansfield, VT
Author on the summit of Mount Elbert (the highest peak in Colorado) blue sky and clouds above, brown blue, and grey rocks below. Hiker holds a cardboard sign triumphantly above her head. The sign reads “MT. ELBERT 14,448 ft)
An adult and baby mountain goat descending Buffalo Mountain in Silverthorne, CO. Lake Dillon reservoir is visible in the distance.
Day 2 of 3 perfect days in Acadia National Park. Sitting near Otter Cliff looking back on the places I’ve already hiked. Sand Beach, Beehive, Gorham etc.
Observation Point marker overlooking Angels Landing in the canyon of Zion National Park
Kinzua Bridge State Park - once considered the Eighth Wonder of the World, this late 19th century engineering marvel was brought down by a tornado in 2003.
Wind blown alpine tree on ascent to Mount Whitney. John Muir Wilderness