[pct-l] The hazards of hiking alone (2nd try, sorry!)

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Sorry!  Don't know why the bad formatting came through!!!......................


FWIW, a few related quotes - some directly, others indirectly...

"Never did I think so much, exist so vividly, and experience so much, never have I been so much myself - if I may use that expression - as in journeys I have taken alone and on foot."  - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he that travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off."  - Thoreau

"Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone....because freedom is of the essence." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"I hike alone sometimes.  It's during these solo hikes that the number of arrogant and ignorant people I have to deal with is reduced to one." – unknown (Jack Hampson?)

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."  - Sir Francis Bacon

“That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time.”  - John Stuart Mill

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."  - Mark Twain

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive.  Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.”  - Maurice Chevalier

Find a copy of "The Complete Walker" by Colin Fletcher - he's the one that started me solo hiking without feeling socially 'guilty' about it...

Happy trails!!!
Jim (PITA)


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