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[pct-l] Goal Oriented Hiking.



> What are your goals?
> What makes you go to the outdoors?

When I head out on a section hike of the PCT or CDT by myself, and I'm out
there for longer than ten days, I invariably have a peak experience of sorts
that affects how I live my life when I go back to civilization.

I don't have this as a goal. I start hiking alone to see what happens.  In
retrospect, this is what happens, so now I'm going to call it a goal.  "My
goal for hiking alone on the PCT/CDT is to see what happens."

I plan for a length of time and distance, but let go of this in the first
week to ten days.   I'm curious about what is going to happen.  I'm always
surprised.

When I hike with others my curiousity is narrowed and lost.  The plan is
followed and I find myself making sure I don't just space out and go where I
may emotionally, or spiritually, or physically.

I like the question.  Thanks for asking it!

Jeff Olson
Laramie, Wyoming, where it's 13 degrees and below 0 at night - finally!