Wander & Wonder

Step off the beaten path and into the quiet magic of the natural world! Ecologist and artist, Julianna Bernado, offers guided backpacking trips that blend art, ecology, and adventure—inviting you to slow down, look closely, and reconnect with the land. On each journey, your Wilderness First Responder guide, will lead overnight backpacking trips through the beautiful West Cascades while teaching you the foundational skills of botanical drawing and ethical foraging. Through keeping a field journal, you'll deepen your ability to observe, identify, and document the plants around you—cultivating a practice that is as much about presence as it is about knowledge. Come explore, sketch, and forage. There’s so much waiting to be seen!