Inside one outdoorsman’s quest for improved access to nature for adventurers with disabilities. -- Read and share our stories!
From last September's adaptive camping weekend at Âilo Mciver State Park in Oregon. | Photos courtesy of West Òivaudais |
West Livaudais has a hiking resume that measures up with the best of them. Filled with the iconic trails and summits of the Pacific Northwest, it’s an impressive Rolodex of backcountry adventures and lived experiences. There’s the time he finished the Timberline Trail around Mt. Hood in a single day, blisters and all; the morning he watched the sunrise at "lunch counter" and summited Mt. Adams; and the afternoon he went snowshoeing in Mt. Rainier National Park and spent three hours building an ice cave, only to have it collapse right before dusk. That night, he chased down his dinner with some whiskey. "The outdoors was my oyster. I could go anywhere," he says. "I could do anything, as long as I planned and I was prepared." |
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