July is National Parks and Recreation Month and Henry David Thoreau’s birthday. GMP wants your stories about outdoor adventures, misadventures, and everything in between.
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” ~Henry David Thoreau
Sarah, a friend of mine from college, is currently 500+ miles into a through-hike of the Appalachian Trail. Every day I visit her Facebook page to find uploaded messages and pics of her adventure from Georgia to Maine. In some strange way, each step she takes is an inspiration for me, and I find myself engaging in nature as a result.
This month, we’re looking for our Guyhood readers to channel their inner Thoreau.
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Every year, July is recognized as National Parks and Recreation Month, with this year’s theme as “Out is In.” Recently, GMP has run several stories highlighting the benefits of spending time in nature as well as the challenge for men to make conservation and natural appreciation part of their lives.
This month, we’re looking for our Guyhood readers to channel their inner Thoreau. Contribute a nature inspired short story. Chronicle your outdoor adventures like climbing mountains, hiking hundreds of trail miles, scaling rock faces, or kayaking down rapids. Admit misadventures in nature when the bear ate your food bag or you met the not so friendly individual along the trail. Discuss what nature means to you and what it could mean to our readers.
Send your exquisitely edited articles, very rough drafts, or story ideas to Guyhood Senior Editor Scott Heydt at [email protected].
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