Wilderness Therapy

So it's been awhile since I have posted. I have been a bit distracted as of late. 

I figured I would pull out an assignment I completed awhile back. 

I was assigned to cover a wilderness therapy program for troubled teens on a trip in Coyote Gulch in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in southern Utah near Lake Powell (it's not really a lake, it's a reservoir, there is a huge difference on this one). 

I ended up doing a 10 mile hike to get in with the group and get out that night. It was brutal. Very hot, ran out of water, drank water from the Escalante River that I later found a dead bat in. Had to climb slick rock walls and sand traps for 1,000 vertical feet to exit the gulch and came within milliseconds and inches from being bitten by a rattle snake in the night on the way out.

My reporter got skinned alive after repeatedly falling down a slick rock wall but she survived with cool battle wounds. At one point in the trip I had to lay in a creek for about 20 minutes to get my body temperature down. It was actually a bit frightening to feel your body begin to shut down and not just because of simple of exhaustion. We both agreed that getting in and out loaded with gear and battling the heat and dehydration was one of the most physically challenging things each one of us has ever done. 

Above are some selects from the trip and a multimedia package I produced with a lot more photos and audio and voices from the trip can be found here.

Enjoy, any feedback is welcome.