Active Aging: Hiking Health and Healing
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In early October of 2010, R (lead author) arrived in a parking lot at 6:30 am for a hike in the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Canada to meet the group of middle-aged and older adult hiking enthusiasts he had been hiking with once a week since August. On this outing, R was introduced to a new hiking group member, Chloé1. Her story touched on common themes identified in this ethnographic study and is illustrative of a collective experience. The following is R’s journal entry from that day:
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