{"id":360,"date":"2009-02-22T23:16:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T04:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tetontrip.org\/2009\/02\/22\/i-knew-i-would-go-back-there\/"},"modified":"2009-02-22T23:16:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T04:16:47","slug":"i-knew-i-would-go-back-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/tetons\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"I knew I would go back there&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image361\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/tetons\/files\/2009\/02\/sune-tamm-buckle-gtwy02.jpg\" alt=\"sune-tamm-buckle-gtwy02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<b>One of the most memorable experiences in high school!<\/b><br \/>\nThe Teton Trip tied together some of my favorite things: writing, being out in the cold, dabbling in art and being with people in a challenging environment.  I remember writing in my diary that I knew I would go back there&#8230; and I did.  I think I&#8217;ve been back 7 times since then, mostly as a climber, but also as a student, sometimes winter, sometimes summer.  That trip helped plant some of the seeds which grew into my college major and then a career in the outdoors.  I loved the camaraderie between students and teachers and the chance to learn and grow in an informal way while still garnering a valid academic and artistic product&#8211;all in the world&#8217;s largest intact (non-polar) ecosystem.  This was a pretty special opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h5>Sune Tamm-Buckle<br \/>\n1999 Teton Trip<\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image359\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/tetons\/files\/2009\/02\/sune-tamm-buckle-gtwy.jpg\" alt=\"sune-tamm-buckle-gtwy.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Above:  Sune on the summit of Grand Teton in 2005<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One of the most memorable experiences in high school! The Teton Trip tied together some of my favorite things: writing, being out in the cold, dabbling in art and being with people in a challenging environment. I remember writing in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/tetons\/?p=360\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1999-trip","category-alumni-comments","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/tetons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/tetons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/tetons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/tetons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/tetons\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/tetons\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/tetons\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/tetons\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/tetons\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}