"My proudest moment is making it to the top of Texas and taking my first solo road trip adventure!I started planning this trip about six months prior. It was one of those trips I kept waiting for another person to be able to go on, and so I kept putting it off again and again. I finally decided that …

"My proudest moment is learning to be my whole self in the outdoors.I started backpacking when I was sixteen and immediately fell in love with the outdoors. It was the first place I had ever been that was big enough to encompass all sides of me. Coming from a family that was supportive of my going, …