Hannah Pritchett

Hannah Pritchett {[email protected]} holds a BA from BYU and an MA from UC Berkeley, both in linguistics, and works in online safety at Facebook. She lives in Oakland, California with her husband Michael Nielsen.

Charity on the Rocks

Articles/Essays – Volume 47, No. 4

My husband grew up backpacking, and it was one of the conditions of our marriage that I would learn to backpack too. I do it now, and occasionally even enjoy it, but it’s definitely a stretch to say that I’m good at it or love it as wholeheartedly as Mike does; backpacking is perpetually a challenge for me, and my favorite part is the end of the day when I collapse in our tent with my Kindle. I say this by way of prefacing a personal story so that you understand the context as I start telling you about a time when nature nearly got the best of me.