Kassondra Cloos is a Boulder-based writer and editor, whose first job was testing toys for Hasbro in her Rhode Island hometown. She ran away to the West in 2014 for big mountains, open roads, and better tacos. Follow her adventures on Instagram, and her ramblings on Twitter.
There are two surviving photos, from two iPhones ago, of the most important hike of my life. One is a landscape shot of the bright green, leafy trees that carpe...