TTS37 Semester Blog

All Food Considered: A Peek into Grubbing on TTS37 TTS37 had a special relationship with food and meals became a crucial gathering and processing time. The students fell into the swing of making healthy, mostly plant-based, and nourishing meals every...

“Our goal is to create a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls. As well as a quantitative change in our lives.” -Martin Luther King Jr. It is Saturday morning. Heather and I are sitting at the dining room table in a...

As I write this, the students are sprawled out on the carpet and armchairs, studying peacefully with snow-dusted mountains framing the windows of our cozy lodge outside of Yellowstone National Park. This past week we’ve enjoyed the May snow of Montana,...

Happy Mother’s Day from TTS37!Here at TTS, we are SO thankful for all of the mothers, grandmothers, femme mentors, and maternal figures that have given so much to each of us and our communities. We celebrate those who have given life to us, who care for us...

Hi all! Writing to you from Jackson Hole, Wyoming (we recently learned the ‘Hole’ in Jackson Hole refers to the entire valley instead of just the town of Jackson). We had a super fun day yesterday spending the morning in classes at the beautiful public...

CanyoneeringFor this blog post, we asked two students to share their thoughts on our canyoneering adventure in Hanksville, Utah!  Janelle will get us started with our first day:Despite initial fears, everyone absolutely rocked the first day of canyoneering...

By Lawson HickmanAll aboard the choo choo train! On March 30th, we adventured off on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. TTS37 rode on the 5 hour Cascade Canyon Express! At around 9AM, we left the station with huge smiles on our faces. The...

Student Journal Entries Desert by Alex WestonI belong to the desertThe dry air fills my lungs with each breath I take Mountains made of dirt rise higher than i would dare to climbBut I do Rising with every step, my hands grasp rocks that are older than I...

A Mid-Semester ReflectionThrough The Eyes of Bec Wright 

BACKPACKING     This past week we embarked on a backpacking journey through the Grand Gulch area in Southeastern Utah. We split into two groups, and hiked through different drainages and scaled in or out of the vast canyon . Along the way, we encountered...