What to keep?
Here at SUU, I have become heavily involved in the outdoor recreation community on campus. This has introduced me to an extraordinary group of people. Rock climbers, ski bums and backpackers, mountaineers and canyoneers. Many of these people live out of vans, small apartments, crash on couches, and own very few possessions. We sacrifice the material objects to get to the far reaches of the desert and high peaks of the mountains. When beginning to minimize your possessions, the question you're told to ask yourself is “Does this bring me joy? Does it add to my life?” So with these pictures I wanted to explore why gear passed the test of what to keep. When condensing everything you own to fit into a single van, where was the line drawn? As I worked on this project, I began to see that these things were more than just things. They are tools, they open doors. Allow us to scale 100 foot walls of cliff, surf down a mountain, and survive for days in the wilderness. I took the