“What is that?” I could hear Mia saying nearby—half disgusted, half intrigued.
I chuckled as I snapped a photo of Sara in her element—the outdoors, a m...
In the backcountry of Alaska, I was once asked, “Couldn’t you just stay out here forever, live away from it all?”
The scenery was beautiful, and the chan...
“Early morning is beautiful on the river and I am a morning person so I'd be happy to meet as early as 6:00am,” the email read.
Not a morning person, I cr...
When I first met Whitney Parnell, CEO & Co-founder of the rising nonprofit, Service Never Sleeps (SNS), it was about three in the morning and I’d lost mos...
I was a curious kid. I climbed trees. I explored the creeks near my home. I rollerbladed on trails paralleling the Pacific Ocean. As a kid, the world was this b...
I remember the first time I had to pee outdoors. I was eight or so years old, and the reason I remember it is because it didn’t go well. There was just pee, e...
Peak experiences make it easy to fall in love.
I spent a week alone in the backcountry of Everglades National Park, interacting with slow, sacred waters. I fel...
“For after something this powerful, this deep,” I whispered, “There is nothing after here.”
I was five days into a weeklong solo-kayaking trip through ...
On Wild Wilderness Women. The more I thought about it, the more I couldn’t fight the question of, “Why weren’t the women in my life doing something similar?”
Through the wilderness, I’d found a new and growing sense of empowerment.
Korrin L. Bishop is a California native, Oregon Duck, and current resident of Washington, D.C. where she works on local and federal homelessness programs. In addition to her day job, she is an essayist, letter writer, and cofounder of the outdoor group, Wild Wilderness Women, which you can visit at www.wildwildernesswomen.com. Korrin has an affinity for kayaking, a deep love for the Everglades, and a penchant for initiating group hugs.
