What do you get out of the backcountry?

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Posted by tripp on January 5, 2007 at 10:07:40 pm EST

So everyone is talking recently about what items they take with them to the backcountry. That leaves me wondering what everyone takes from the backcountry - not literally, like rocks, plants or animals. Every time I go out into the woods, it takes a couple of days for me to readjust to life at home. When I go out, it's like a little moment in time where I don't have to be somewhere, sometime, someone. I can just be. There's a certain sense of peace and contentment that comes to me in the woods. Just wondering if I'm alone in this or if anyone else out there has any feelings remotely similar. Plus I just finished reading "A Season on the Appalachian Trail" by Lynn Setzer and while I haven't thru-hiked the AT (yet), I definitely identify with what they got - spiritually, emotionally, all that jazz - from the long hike. Just wondering what everyone else gets from their treks into the wilderness...

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