May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you — beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.Edward Abbey (via peroculi)
(Source: quote-book)
In hiking, passion is power … Draw your strength, then, from this passion, which is also love: love for the mountains and nature that is the basis of environmentalism; love for inner peace, which is introspection that leads to wisdom; and love for your fellow mountaineers, that is, friendship. … To love something (or someone), you have to find many reasons for loving, for these reasons are like roots that run deep: intertwined, they will make you weather whatever storm comes your way.Gideon Lasco, “A letter to a young mountaineer” (via proseprunings)
(Source: pinoymountaineer.com, via treesarethebeesknees)
In hiking, passion is power … Draw your strength, then, from this passion, which is also love: love for the mountains and nature that is the basis of environmentalism; love for inner peace, which is introspection that leads to wisdom; and love for your fellow mountaineers, that is, friendship. … To love something (or someone), you have to find many reasons for loving, for these reasons are like roots that run deep: intertwined, they will make you weather whatever storm comes your way.Gideon Lasco, “A letter to a young mountaineer” (via proseprunings)
(Source: pinoymountaineer.com, via treesarethebeesknees)
Next winter after I finish school? Maybe…
This sounds like exactly what I’m looking for… My dream farm, maybe I will go WWOOFing next winter after I graduate :)
ARG068
City: Epuyen
Province : Chubut
Type of property: ranch very far from the town, in development for turism
Size (ha): 15000
Cultivos: none yet
We speak: Spanish
Description: The ranch is located between mountains, covered with forests, surrounded by a national park which has a pristine river, livestock farming.
No direct access by car. To reach our place you will need to cross Lago Puelo (a town), walk in the mountains for 5 hours, then cross a river.
There are two houses, one can be used by the wwoofers. Electricity is generated by a mini electric turbine.
Activities are: repairing sheds, make a vegetable garden, milk cows, tame baby cows
We are trying to improve the electric system of the turbine which is 12 volts and the electrical installation in the houses, make it more insulated for the winter, construct a cielorazo in one of the constructions are just a few of the projects we are looking to work on for this year.
Accomodation: housing conditions are: a building with electricity 12 volts with a bathroom with hot water without beds or mattresses for now
You can receive up to five volunteers
Food: vegetarian, trout from the river when we do catch them, milk from our cows
We are: a family with kids
When to come: January, February, March and beginning of April
Additional comments: We need people who could be here for a period of approximately 15 days without leaving the valley because the distance to the nearest town with opportunities to purchase food is about seven hours (walk five hours to Lago Puelo and then cross the lake), we take care of transporting people across lake
