Haikus from the Field

This week we’re highlighting a few artistic tidbits from our alumni. Writing haikus can be a great hiking past time or a good exercise in post-course nostalgia. Here are just a few of these NOLS literary gems.

We schlepped the pack up
So we could schlep the pack down
My back is still sore.

-Brian Drourr

Outdoors being me
Breezey, Hiking, Riding, Free
Alive as can be

-Megan Allen

Ski hike boat climb ride
Semester in the Rockies
Leadership for life!

-Susanne Nelson

Licking rainbows the
sun burned a happy hole in
our Talkeetna hearts

-Andrew Galbreath

We’ll have to track down Andrew and find out exactly what licking rainbows entails. To all our featured haiku masters, thanks for sharing your poems! To all our other NOLS readers, keep up the fine literary work.