# @lauraroze on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DBeWjGryA-y
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/24301576-lauraroze-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-10-23T17:00:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Laura Rose (@lauraroze) — https://gondola.cc/lauraroze

## Caption

Backpacking Kearsage pass + lakes with Loki in June. Loki and I have been backpacking together every summer since 2018. It’s something we look forward to every year. For me it’s similar to a meditation retreat. I get the opportunity to completely disconnect from technology and responsibilities, and after a strenuous hike in, get to enjoy the absolutely insane beauty of the sierra nevadas. Every time I disconnect in this way, I get exactly what my mind needs. To me, spending time in nature in this way is potent and necessary for the human spirit. I have no other way to describe it. 

I’ve had people tell me they don’t know if they could do it, spend a night or two in the wilderness alone with just a dog. To me, as granola as it sounds, I don’t know how we can do without it. It feels like the most fundamentally human thing to do, to just be outside in awe of nature. It is so easy to over complicate life, to live in constant pursuit of the next thing that will make us happy, to lose sight of the simplicity of life. Out there all you need is a warm meal and a cozy sleeping bag, and it’s completely enough. 

I feel very fortunate to have found a hobby that brings me back to myself in this way. I hope that everyone is able to find something they love doing so much that it makes all of the chaos and hardship worth it. That being said, if anyone wants to go backpacking next summer please let me know! I love going on trips with people as well and have only gone alone so much because I don’t know too many people interested in backpacking. 

#backpacking #fieldmag #kodakgold200

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Laura Rose | @lauraroze | https://gondola.cc/lauraroze | Creative |

## Tags

backpacking, fieldmag, kodakgold200

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