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                    <h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline">11. Running Down Mountains</h1>
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                    <p>Melissa goes on her first solo trip hiking in British Columbia, where she learns to trust her
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                    <p><strong>(Intro quote) Melissa: </strong>Instantly, as soon as I checked the weather and saw
                        that like severe thunderstorms rolling in, it just started down pouring. So I just like
                        threw everything in my bag. Just started basically running down the trail.</p>
                    <p><strong>Leah: </strong>Welcome to Wander By Proxy, a podcast featuring women’s travel stories
                        that connect them more to themselves in the world around them. I’m Leah Falyn. And today we
                        have Melissa Miller, who jped hurdle after hurdle to get to British Colbia. Here’s Melissa. 
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                    <p><strong>Melissa: </strong>So I decided to move to Alaska. <s>, </s>On this trip, my ex was
                        supposed to come with me. He broke up with me, like, I think it was like two weeks before we
                        were going to leave together. So that was the first thing. So then I frantically just
                        started reaching out to people on Instagram, like, Hey, do you want to come backpacking with
                        me?</p>
                    <p>I’m going to Alaska. Like how much of this journey do you want to come with me on? Like, I
                        was just so. I feel like I got caught up and just like, I can’t do this alone. Like, why
                        would I do this alone? And just started frantically yeah. Reaching out to people. So I was
                        able to get my friend to commit, I thought to this.</p>
                    <p> so it was a one nighter planned. <s>, </s>we had one planned for like just North of
                        Vancouver, British Colbia, like the tunnel Bluffs. And then the next night we were going to
                        do Garibaldi Lake, which is pretty popular. There’s Panorama Ridge up there that everyone
                        goes to like so many viral pictures of that.</p>
                    <p>So it, yeah, it’s very popular, definitely needed permits.</p>
                    <p>So I got the permit, all this, <s>, </s>ah, got it ready. And the day I was heading up
                        they’re from Seattle. She just was totally nonresponsive on the phone,</p>
                    <p>which kind of made me panic, but I was like, Oh, it’s okay. Like I’ll get into Canada. And
                        then, you know, just kind of wait and see if she responds and nothing. So the first
                        backpacking trip I did alone and it was fine and I didn’t sleep at all. But then this, the
                        story I want to tell is for actually the second night of backpacking solo, which was a more
                        intense hike.</p>
                    <p>The first one wasn’t that big of a deal. This next one, Garibaldi Lake was it’s like seven
                        miles in 3,300 elevation gain. I had to, I had to look it up cause I couldn’t remember if I
                        was just making it up in my mind that it was difficult or if it was actually kind of
                        difficult. And I think 3,300 feet elevation gain is decent.</p>
                    <p>And it’s, it’s interesting because before all this, before I left to go to Alaska, I was
                        starting to compile stories from other women that had traveled solo. I wanted to make this
                        like magazine spread of these women that had traveled solo and did all these cool things.
                        And I had never traveled solo.</p>
                    <p>So it was kind of like, it felt like the universe was like, ha ha you will. <s>, </s>so yeah,
                        I got to the trail head packing up and just instance what, like it, they don’t mess around
                        on that trail. It’s just like instant elevation. There’s, you know, normal chatty old men
                        that felt like they needed to converse.</p>
                    <p>So I was trying to either speed up or go slow, but I did to camp, I set up and I rest for a
                        bit and make dinner. And I decide since I was feeling all energized and empowered,
                        backpacking solo for the second night in a row that I was going to go hike to Panorama Ridge
                        and try to get pictures for my blog and for Instagram.</p>
                    <p>Do it kind of do it? No, I it’s. It’s actually hilarious. Cause I have zero pictures from
                        this trip. I really get into that. So this from the camp spot, so seven miles up to the camp
                        and then to Panorama Ridge, it was another four miles and 2000 elevation gain. So I started,
                        I like timed it out.</p>
                    <p>I was like, all right. Sunset will be around this time. So if I get there like this, look,
                        it’d be more time. You know, I just planned out at the time and left and, <s>, </s>I brought
                        my tripod and my camera and it was gorgeous. But as soon as I hit, like, I think I was a
                        mile and a half or two miles. And I realized, yeah, like, no one CA like hiking towards the
                        same destination as me, everyone was coming back from it.</p>
                    <p>I was like, okay, that’s fine. Like, they just. They wouldn’t need to get back or maybe they
                        were just day hiking. It’s fine. <s>, </s>I’m trudging along and it’s like, there’s no one
                        out there. And it was kind of just, it looked like bear country too. It was just like, you
                        know how some places just like, it just looks like bears live there.</p>
                    <p> This was one of those places. <s>, </s>aye. I, so my tripod turns out. Is too lightweight
                        for my camera. I had like a new camera. It was a Canon add and it was it’s big. So this
                        camera, this tripod was designed for like a small camera. And as soon as I put my camera on
                        it just like fell and broke. So there were no, yes.</p>
                    <p>I couldn’t get any photos, like, unless I propped like it on a rock, but there were no rocks.
                        Like it was just miserable. I was like, all right, this is not for photo content. So I put
                        my camera in my bag. I did like a lot nose, like a half a mile from this viewpoint. And I
                        don’t know, like if the listeners are familiar with Panorama Ridge, but you Google it, it’s
                        like, You did up to this top viewpoint and it’s just sweeping views of mountains and the
                        water below.</p>
                    <p>So it’s like this really blue water and like snowcap mountains, it’s breathtaking. I think
                        photos that I’ve seen. So I’m a half a mile from the viewpoint and I just start seeing these
                        dark clouds, like really quickly rolling in. So I pull out my. Little Garmin GPS and I do is
                        like, cause I just got this, this Garmin.</p>
                    <p>So I was like, Ooh, fancy. I will check the weather on my Garmin and yeah. Extreme
                        thunderstorms. <s>, </s>which I like, I’m a pretty. Type a like prepared person. So like I
                        had checked the weather before and it was smer. Like it had been really hot and warm and
                        dry. And so I just, honestly didn’t really even think about like rain, like rain gear at
                        all.</p>
                    <p>Like I didn’t have it jacket on me. I didn’t have sly for my backpack with my camera. Like I
                        didn’t have. Anything. And it was like instantly, as soon as I checked the weather and saw
                        that like severe thunderstorms rolling in, it just started down pouring. So I just like
                        threw everything in my bag. Just started like running, basically running down the trail.</p>
                    <p>Cause I, my camera’s in my bag. I have no waterproof care and I knew I had like three and a
                        half miles to get back to my tent. Thank goodness. I was smart enough to put up my rain fly
                        on my tent before leaving. That would have been anyway. So running down the trail, I think
                        it was like a half a mile into my frantic, like rain running that I’m like, wait, what if I
                        startled a bear violet running up onto them.</p>
                    <p>So that that’s what started going through my brain. So it was like, okay, I need to be. Loud
                        and alert the bears of my presence, my very distressed presence. So I’m pretty sure I was
                        trying to think today of what songs I ended up singing. I honestly think the Sylvan Esso die
                        young song was like the first one that popped into my head.</p>
                    <p><s>, </s>Yeah, right. Some others that were nicer were like Maggie Rogers, Alaska, I think
                        towards the end of my, just like I was just so exhausted and like frantic, it turns into
                        more like alt J style where I’m just like rambling jibberish.</p>
                    <p><strong>Leah: </strong>I can actually see that that seems like a perfect fit.</p>
                    <p><strong>Melissa: </strong>Oh my gosh. There was even like an outhouse. I think it was like
                        two miles down that I was eyeing and I stopped for a moment.</p>
                    <p>It was like, should I just like hide out in this outhouse for a minute? And I think I got
                        close enough to it where I like caught a whip and I was like, Nope, I’m just gonna going to
                        face my destiny here. And my fate and keep going. So, yeah, I made it back camp with no
                        pictures and I got into my tent and it was still just down pouring.</p>
                    <p>And I just remember getting in there and was soaked and just started lying, laughing
                        hysterically. But there was no one there to judge. There was no, like, you couldn’t hear me,
                        even if there were like, the brain was still loud and. Yeah, it, I think it was just like
                        that whole trip. Wasn’t about like, making sure someone else had a good time.</p>
                    <p>It wasn’t about it. Well, it started off, you know, like, Oh, I could create some social
                        media content here, but quickly became not that. And then it was just me and my thoughts and
                        making myself laugh and being, yeah.</p>
                    <p><strong>Leah: </strong>you said something about like, <s>, </s>that’s the day you started
                        trusting yourself. How about if you could go into that a little bit more?</p>
                    <p><strong>Melissa: </strong>Yeah. So I  just, up to this point, I was. Collaborating with so
                        many people. And I was honestly just never really alone. Like I never had spent much time
                        alone leading up to like my breakup and leaving Seattle, like my friend group. So just like,
                        I mean, one just being alone with like my own thoughts and like having to reflect on
                        everything in my life was like, that was a big moment for me.</p>
                    <p>And then. Just throughout that whole experience of like making it down this mountain alive.
                        And, you know, I was, yes. Maybe I was a little overdramatic. Yeah. But like, this was my
                        second night packing, solo something. I thought I was never going to do like that near
                        something, you know, I thought it was like maybe after another year of backpacking, like
                        with friends, maybe I’ll do it, but.</p>
                    <p>Just being  forced into it and doing it anyway, even though I was terrified,  I learned to
                        rely on myself and it  pushed the boundaries of what I thought I could do, <s>, </s>what I
                        was capable of. So I think that day I really learned to trust myself and trust what I was
                        capable of.</p>
                    <p><strong>Leah: </strong>That’s awesome. And what you were saying about being alone almost
                        reminds me about what a, myself included in. Probably a lot of other people went through
                        with quarantine, whereas like, I just had a full calendar January and February, and then all
                        that went away. And regardless of if you have social connections around, you’re just saying
                        like, Oh wow, it’s just me here.</p>
                    <p>  do you think you’re an extrovert or an introvert?</p>
                    <p><strong>Melissa: </strong>So like that was at my height of like extroversion. I was like
                        networking so religiously. <s>, </s>but I feel like. That experience and starting to
                        backpack solo and spend time on the road solo. Like it made me honestly more of like an
                        ambivert that like, up until that I would have totally claimed extrovert, but finally having
                        time to myself and realizing the value of that, like made me crave it more and kind of, I
                        still to this day, like want to spend more time alone.</p>
                    <p>So now I’m claiming ambiverts.</p>
                    <p><strong>Leah: </strong>I am with you a hundred percent. So what have you, what have you taken
                        from that day? Even that night, where you were running by yourself down a Hill singing songs
                        for your life, you thought at least which I completely understand.</p>
                    <p><s>, </s>what did you take. From that from moving forward the next day, even.</p>
                    <p><strong>Melissa: </strong>Yeah. I mean, it was just like the rest of my road trips seemed
                        less scary. Like just adventures in general by myself. Like it was something I always told
                        myself I would do like, Oh, I’m not gonna. You know, not do something just because someone
                        can’t come with me. Like, I don’t want my life to be controlled that way, but yet my life
                        was controlled that way up until this point.</p>
                    <p>Like I always had to find someone to go with me. So I really just think like that self
                        reliance and self trust was just, Oh, it’s priceless.</p>
                    <p><strong>Leah: </strong>Okay, You live in Eureka, California, which is really coincidental
                        because I. I’ve been working remotely for two and a half years. And for about a year and a
                        half of that, I was just jping around the United States for every three months.</p>
                    <p>Pretty much. So one of those three months slots was me in Eureka, California in it I’ve been
                        daydreaming about it ever since, not specifically Eureka, maybe, but like just the parks,
                        just like this crazy adventure. 30 to even 10 minutes away is amazing. And I’ve just been
                        daydreaming about it all through quarantine because in my head it’s the most perfect place
                        to be one of them anyway.</p>
                    <p>And I just think it’s so funny that you’re there.</p>
                    <p><strong>Melissa: </strong>That is so amazing. I mean, yeah. Eureka has the redwoods, the
                        dunes, the coast, like the mountains are not that far away. So, so lucky.</p>
                    <p><strong>Leah: </strong>It’s amazing, like red, I just driving through Eureka redwoods in
                        people’s yards, which</p>
                    <p><strong>Melissa: </strong>Oh, I know.</p>
                    <p><strong>Leah: </strong>blows my mind.  I’m back in Minneapolis now. And the trees are just so
                        subpar to me even like a more a year and a half later. <s>, </s>so I think that’s awesome.
                        What have you been doing to keep the adventurous spirit alive?</p>
                    <p><strong>Melissa: </strong>Yeah. So, I mean, since I’ve only been in Eureka since February, I
                        mean, all of this is pretty new for me. So local exploring hasn’t been a problem for me
                        because it’s all brand new, beautiful. I mean the redwoods, but also like packing up the car
                        and going out East to the rivers spots like exploring locally, making sure I’m not acting in
                        a communities by just in it, in the car.</p>
                    <p>It’s adventurous and it’s, it’s, it gets me out exploring.</p>
                    <p><strong>Leah: </strong>Thank you for listening to this episode of Wander By Proxy, you can
                        check out Melissa’s travel <a href="http://www.missrover.com">www.missrover.com</a> and
                        follow her beautiful adventures on Instagram at<br>@miss.rover. If you liked this episode,
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