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“Unzipping my jacket releases all of the trapped odors of my body and of my disgusting hiking shirt, and oh god, it’s bad. I smell so, so bad. If you bought a 10-pound bag of onions, peeled them all and left them outside during the hottest week of the year, surrounded by roadkill, that is how I smell right now.”
― How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail
― How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail
“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.”
― How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail
― How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail
“I am out here because it is hard, because it is an unparalleled privilege to be able to choose your suffering.”
― What We Owe to Ourselves: a 500-mile hike on the Colorado Trail
― What We Owe to Ourselves: a 500-mile hike on the Colorado Trail
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