Colorado Writer and Explorer
Join India Wood for wild stories about backpacking a 1,500-mile X across Colorado. Be inspired by one woman’s solo adventure and hear her observations of this geologically and ecologically diverse state as a square sample of our planet. Join India for a showing of the "Diagonal" documentary about her hike and a slide show and ... Read more
India will speak about her 1,500-mile backpack of the Colorado X at the Prairie School District in New Raymer, CO. Her wild tales and observations will cover the entire state, including the beautiful land and people of Colorado's Great Plains. This event is for students, teachers, and staff only. She will give two separate talks ... Read more
India Wood, Fountain Valley School '84, found a dinosaur as a kid but at age 53 she felt stuck in life and decided to learn to stand on her own two feet as a solo adventurer, backpacking 1,500 miles in an X across Colorado. Come to FVS alumni weekend south of Colorado Springs and hear ... Read more
Join India Wood for wild stories about backpacking a 1,500-mile X across Colorado as a solo woman and her thoughts on bridging the divide between urban environmentalists and rural stewards. Join India for a 10-minute documentary, slide show, and stories about backpacking her own routes from the SE to NW state corners in 2020 and ... Read more
Join India Wood for a showing of the short documentary, Diagonal, and a Q&A session, as part of the Colorado Mountain Club's annual Boulder group dinner. In 2022 India completed her 1,470-mile backpack of the Colorado X on her own route from the SE to NW and NE to SW corners. At age 53, never ... Read more
Join India Wood and WRV friends for the "Diagonal" documentary and a 45-minute talk and Q&A about how she planned and backpacked her own mostly-solo 1,500-mile route across Colorado. This is not a Colorado Trail talk. India drew two diagonal lines from the SE to NW corners and NE to SW corners of CO ... Read more
Join India Wood for wild stories about backpacking her own route along a 1,500-mile X across Colorado, including the SE region. Join India for a 10-minute documentary, slide show, and stories about backpacking from the SE to NW state corners in 2020 and the NE to SW corners in 2022. Her route included Springfield, La ... Read more
Join India Wood for wild stories about backpacking a 1,500-mile X across Colorado. Be inspired by one woman’s solo adventure and hear her observations of this state as a square sample of our planet. Join India for a showing of the “Diagonal” documentary about her hike and a slide show and stories about backpacking her ... Read more
Join India Wood for a documentary film and wild stories about backpacking a 1,500-mile X across Colorado. Be inspired by an older woman’s solo adventure and hear her observations of this state as a square sample of our planet. India backpacked from the SE to NW state corners in 2020 and the NE to SW ... Read more
India Wood is a featured guest at Colorado Postcards Live: Curious & Colorful Stories. She will tell teenage tales of finding and digging up the state's most famous carnivorous dinosaur at the DMNS and middle-aged legends about hiking a 1,500-mile X across the state. The event brings CPR’s popular audio series to the stage for ... Read more
Join noted Colorado explorer and student of nature India Wood for a hands-on exploration of how to identify Colorado’s conifers and a slide show and stories about her hike along the 51-mile Gore Range Trail. The Gore Range north of Dillon reveals how our forests are changing due to cycles of insects, maturity, and weather ... Read more
Join India Wood for wild stories about backpacking her own route along a 1,500-mile X across Colorado. Be inspired by one woman’s solo adventure and hear her observations of this state as a square sample of our planet. Join India for a showing of the short “Diagonal” documentary, slide show, and stories about backpacking the ... Read more