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[stonedancer1 at aol.com]

 Ditto.  A lot of people hike the trail thinking of fun and physical challenge.  But in many ways, it's the place where we really look at what it means to be a human, connected to other humans.  I was back on the trail hiking two months after No Way Ray was killed at Deep Creek exactly for this reason.
"Take care out there" has lots of levels of meaning.  
Stone Dancer

 


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Williams <baidarker at gmail.com>
To: ned <ned at mountaineducation.org>
Cc: Pct-l <Pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Tue, Apr 5, 2011 7:44 pm
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Options


Beautifully told Jeffrey.  It's always much harder for me to hike alone, and
yet I've done a lot of it too over the years.  Those feelings of sadness
even overwhelmed me when hiking alone just for a day or two when my friends
had taken a zero that I hadn't.  The trail so amplifies whatever is going on
internally, at least for me.  Much of the alone time last year was working
through the death of my parents which was not too long ago.  They gave me a
love of mountains, and trail, and they were very much with me last year as I
hiked.  I processed a lot of sadness out there, one foot in front of the
other.

Thanks,

Shroomer
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