In the Adventure Stories series, we ask Wild Rock staff and contributors to share some of the most exciting outdoor experiences they've had lately. Next up is Wild Rock's General Manager Tori Silvera, who shares some anecdotes from a memorable weekend in the Adirondacks.

You learn to miss the fear, but not at first.First, everything is confusing and intimidating.It takes me ten minutes just to figure out how to cross the street in Vietnam. I’m not exaggerating. I walk to the corner toward the...

I was walking with my head down when the dirt ended. It was raining. Not torrential, soaking rain, but the kind of rain that’s more like wet air; constant, light, and misty. Impenetrable. Cold. Eight degrees is lovely in the...