The Single Thing I Wish I’d Known Before My Thru-Hike That Nobody Told Me

One evening, damp and full of anguish, I arrive at a shelter and basically fall apart. I can’t believe—I’m, like, refusing to accept—that there is no way out of this hell, no alternative to sleeping in the woods another cold, wet night (and another, and another). It’s so ludicrous it doesn’t compute. A cry is coming on, so I scoot behind the shelter and sob. Never have I so badly wanted to escape something and had zero out. ...

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