Welcome to winter!

The days are short and cold; your face hurts, and everything feels paper-dry. Your nostrils crinkle with every breath; you fell three times on the way to class this morning. It takes fifteen minutes to find your gloves, and so you were late; you also spilled your hot chocolate all over yourself. 

Winter isn’t very nice sometimes.

But there comes a time when your comfy blanket becomes stifling; when the grim flicker of the fluorescent lights begins to drive one mad; when the salt and gravel comes not just to coat and corrode your shoes, but your very soul. 

This is when you go for a hike. 

When life gives you winter, go winter hiking. 

As Rory Gawler will tell you, “It’s better than summer hiking, because you don’t sweat as much.”