In February 2022, Adam Sawyer misplaced his entire world. A catastrophic hearth burned down his home close to Mount Rainier in Oregon and claimed his companion’s life. Within the 12 months since, Sawyer has regularly set out into nature, typically retracing the paths he walked—and journeys he took—together with his late companion. “I used to be purposefully going to locations that she and I had traveled to collectively earlier than. It looks like a method of self-flagellation, nevertheless it was additionally a approach to actually lean into the grieving course of,” says Sawyer, who writes about journey and the outside. “I’d go someplace on a path so far as I…