With anxiety on the rise in teens, writer Katie Arnold is grateful for the resilience her daughters have learned from camping, whitewater rafting and other outdoor adventures
It’s a blazingly beautiful fall day, the Utah sky a cloudless bowl of cobalt blue arcing above 800-foot sandstone canyon walls on the Green River. If there’s a picture postcard of a desert river, we’re in it—a flotilla of colorful whitewater rafts bobbing along a twisting ribbon of silty water. Just ahead in a bend in the river is a narrow sandbar island, where we’ll camp for the night.
The scene is happily familiar. We’ve been coming to rivers like the Green since our daughters, now 12 and 14, were babies. They’ve wallowed in slime and skipped rocks and camped on sand bars and floated lazy rapids longer than they can remember. In the beginning, we went to the wilderness because my husband and I loved it and selfishly wanted them to love it, too. Now we go because we can’t live without it.
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