Lessons from hiking and camping in the back country: You can embark on a route that is part of a trade network used by the Ahwahnechee, Paiute, Miwok, Mono tribes in the Sierra for centuries, the Nüümü Poyo. Indigenous people have been working with the land for millennia, promoting ecological diversity and stewarding the forests. You can see the meadows, bathe in the creeks, gaze at the Milky Way, and sing to the moon. This land has the power to heal you if you let it. 📸 @pattiegonia