Originally from Eagle, CO, Saphira currently calls Ohio home. She spent a few summers as a counselor at Camp Shwayder in the mountains of Colorado, working with kids of all ages. She also spent a semester working with teenagers in an after-school audio-visual club. Saphira is a NOLS graduate as well, having completed a multi-week course in rock climbing and backpacking.
Oberlin College, bachelor’s degree in history
Wilderness first responder
Swimming in shallow glacial alpine lakes, traveling, contact-improv, reading, journaling, taking pictures while jumping, rock climbing, skiing, and smelling flowers. I’m now excited about crocheting, too!
My first series of solo-hikes: My first-ever hike alone was a 10-hour one along the Croatian-Bosnian border where I got lost in some trees and wandered through thick fog with horses for company. A couple months later, I was in the Republic of Georgia and did a ridge hike above the highest village in Europe and got to frolic in flower fields.
My dad telling me and my brother stories to get us to go to sleep when I was younger when we went camping, watching a fissure eruption in Iceland with the most stunning sunset I’ve ever seen and 70mph winds attempting to blow me off the side of the hill, or rock climbing with red-tailed hawks circling above.
Either Ireland or the Chilean and Argentinian Patagonia. I have a particular obsession with Irish music, and I loved all of the live music, the people, and the scenery. With Patagonia, I was absolutely smitten with the MOUNTAINS that appear out of NOWHERE, matè (a tea), and the personal transformation traveling there gave to me.
Returning to a place full of whimsy and wonder, where there’s a community to learn to do cool and hard things together.
Previous Adventure Treks trips include Pacific Northwest Adventure, Ultimate Northwest
Maggie