Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
I grew up in Minnesota.
Once I graduated from university, I wanted to climb and be outdoors as much as possible. I worked as a part-time carpenter and kept up a relationship with The North Face. One thing led to another, and I'm lucky to be where I am now. It was a circuitous path with lots of adventure throughout.
I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.
I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.
I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.
I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.
I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.
Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.