What we’ve discovered in our six years of leading men and women veterans and active duty service members into the wilderness is that most participants are philosophers and deep thinkers. We believe this is because military service has exposed many to deep reflections of life,
‘Huts For Vets’ Builds Tipi Base Camp and Targets National Veterans Groups By Paul Andersen, Executive Director, Huts For Vets Huts For Vets is now a landmark in the Roaring Fork Valley on a spectacular site with three large tipis overlooking the Elk Range. This
Our trip two weeks ago with an outstanding group from the Pat Tillman Center and Arizona State University was a great success – including the first official use of our new teepee base camp. Here is a blog written by participant Cheryl Reinhart that captures
https://hutsforvets.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/LONELY-WAR_session_2018-03-16.mp3 By Brian Porter, Huts For Vets, Director of Operations | Song performed by Mack Bailey I have used writing as a form of therapy for years now. Mostly it revolves around my experiences with war and I hope to learn from what I do
By Mike Greenwood, Tenth Mountain Division Veteran and Huts For Vets Alumnus I find myself lying completely still in a rain storm, on my back, looking up to the sky wondering what I’m doing here and why can’t I move. A few seconds later I
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed, and rain drummed on the roof of Margy’s Hut in August 2016 as Aspen Institute senior moderator Pete Thigpen led a dozen US men and women combat veterans through a discussion of “The Melian Dialogue,” by Thucydides. Thigpen, a Marine Corps
Dick Durrance was raised in Aspen, worked for decades as a professional photographer, and is reopening his photo files on images he shot as a military photographer during the War in Vietnam. The three images here represent the close intensity with which Durrance chronicled the
Originally posted to SierraClub.org | June 7, 2016 Garett Reppenhagen of the Vet Voice Foundation talks about America the beautiful. BY GARETT REPPENHAGEN We were covered in what felt like the dust and sweat of a thousand years when our sniper team stopped off at Camp Anaconda,
How a Veteran Survives Survival By Paul Andersen, Founder and Exec. Dir. Huts For Vets (from his Aspen Times newspaper column Monday August 29, 2016) Most US soldiers today don’t die as casualties during war; they die afterwards, as veterans, from despair, helplessness and alienation.
You’re a grand old flag By Paul Andersen, Founder and Exec. Dir. Huts For Vets (From his Aspen Times newspaper column Monday September 12, 2016) The American flag was presented to me last week by a team of combat veterans. I had never looked at
Huts for Vets was founded in Aspen, Colorado in January 2013 to provide, at no cost to participants, wilderness and communal experiences as therapeutic healing for U.S. veterans and active-duty service members.