View highlights from a wonderful 2022-2023 season at Patagonia Frontiers, which welcomed 90 students across six courses . As we prepare for another season ahead, founder (director) John Hauf reflects on highlights from collaborations with Penn State University and Steamboat Mountain School, the agility of our dedicated crew (staff), and more.

“Welcome home, neighbor,” said don Julian, “Here are your belongings, all ready for you.”

At the water’s edge five dogs tear past me at full tilt, barking and howling without so much as a glance in my direction. They’re literally just a canine leap apart. She stands there, immobile, ears flattened to her head, water to the top of her legs, yet with her body out of the cold water. Not a single twitch anywhere upon her……

A story about facing challenges, trying to make it work, accepting what is, and others stepping in without judgement to help and care. What if we took a lesson from this horses, accepting what is, stepping in to help where we could and how we could without judgement?

The mountains and their summits seemed too far from home then, perhaps unobtainable in their distant remoteness, a smoldering ache I couldn’t shake.   How, I wondered, would I ever narrow that chasm between what I was doing, and what I wanted to be doing?