March 6, 2023
Sarah Lindner, ’23, has no problem getting out of her comfort zone. Choosing a college 3,660 miles from her hometown of Two Rivers, Alaska, wasn’t a problem, and Lindner had expected to go even farther abroad during college.
COVID, of course, changed her ideas about where she might go.
“Traveling abroad just seemed too complicated,” said Lindner, a senior majoring in geology at Albion College.
She may not have left the U.S., but Lindner spent this past fall semester in places few Americans have seen. While canoeing, hiking and climbing, Lindner traveled the most remote parts of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and Idaho. She saw black bears and bobcats from her canoe, visited ancient Anasazi dwellings, cooked over a campfire and learned how to “read” river currents.
It was more exercise and less showering than with a “typical” off-campus semester, but for Lindner,…
