Friday, June 22, 2012

You know you've been hiking a lot when...


I dream in contour.
  • You can feel when you're off-route.
  • You are uneasy and your legs hurt from all the scratches.
  • Your dreams are laced with squiggly brown contour lines. 
  • You need to do laundry so you have clean hiking shirts.
  • You have shed the deodorant and comb as extra weight. You give toothpaste the critical eye.
  • You refer to "servings" of toilet paper, as in "How many servings of toilet paper am I going to need for this trip?"
  • You have two definitions of hard hiking...
---  23 blowdowns in the space of 40 minutes.
--- Your 24 year-old hiking partner asserting that getting her period is the WORST thing that could've happened on this backpacking trip. She repeats it at least 23 times in a 40 minute period.
Lemme give you the blowdown.
  • My kingdom for a Playtex Super.
  • To plug her mouth with.
  • You are outside to receive the sun's first kiss.
  • It restores you because being alone in the wilderness at night is frightening.
  • You can identify trail by cairn, by blaze, by sawed log ends, and by soil disturbance.
  • You've worked out your own alert system for number of blowdowns along a trail...
--- Pink = Yay! An opportunity for a great ab workout.
--- Yellow = This ab workout expends a lot of energy.
--- Orange = Shit. Shit. Shit.
--- Red = Alright already, hiking gods! My abs are going to scare away my boyfriend.
  • Tapwater tastes funny.
  • A successful trip is gauged by netting more stories than scratches.
  • You appreciate how the help never forgets to freshen the flowers. 
  • Colorado Blue Columbine
  • You can't write down all the reasons you do it.

Alpine meadow beauties

1 comment:

Stephina Suzzane said...

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

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