By Teddy Charlton of Westminster College Last week, our Round River cohort spent a total of seven nights and eight days in Valle Chacabuco which is part of Patagonia National Park (PNP). The landscape is incredibly beautiful and unlike anything…
By Bailey Fuhrmann of the University of Puget Sound On October 3rd we left for Valle Chacabuco to conduct guanaco (Lama guanacoe) research for the week. The goal of our research was to map the extent of guanaco and estimate…
by Kira Corasanti of the University of Vermont On Monday, September 26, we woke up to a rainy cold morning, more excited at the prospect of staying in our quincho and drinking mate than going out for our first backpacking…
By Christian Soychak of the University of Vermont My journey to Botswana started early at four in the morning on September 20th. Having always wanted to visit Africa, I was worried that I wouldn’t get enough sleep due to excitement,…
by Madeline Waterman of the University of Vermont When our group first arrived around 2 a.m. at the Whitehorse Airport, everyone was bleary-eyed, hesitant to make conversation, and more than a little anxious about the onslaught of mosquitoes we were…