Olivia Strittmatter - School Counselors Hike the AT

 Blog Post 14 - Topic of my Choosing 4


This blog post is going to be about a reading that I did for my research paper. It’s titled Mountain-Bound: A Test of Counseling Techniques by Klocke, D. and Wichern, D.

This journal article is about how a group of high school counselors decided that they wanted to backpack a portion of the Appalachian Trail, and they chose to hike through Vermont. During the first day they realized that they would have to keep a positive attitude about their situation in order to accomplish the difficult task they had set for themselves. They experienced being in a liminal zone for the first time (it seemed). They didn’t call the AT a liminal zone, but by what they were describing it’s clear that they were experiencing liminality. 

They talked about how kind everyone was, and how no one ever said no when they requested help. They also seemed surprised by how kind everyone was, a group offered them boiling water when they had not been able to find the spring near their campsite, and when they were too tired to boil their own water. They had met two guys who seemed to wait for them at every turn the trail took, to make sure they hadn’t gotten lost. They had walked a while down the wrong way off the trail before realizing, and the guys ran into them when they got back on the trail, and from then on the guys waited for them to make sure they didn’t get lost.

They also conclude with how they had made a lot of choices during the trip, such as how much to hike everyday depending on the challenges of that day, and what their overall goal was. They said though that their best decision was not to quit, and to keep going for the time they had allotted for.

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