Don't get me wrong - I love my Ohio and Indiana trails, and I never feel like a "poser" when I'm backpacking on them. I only intended to point out that no one needs to feel humble about hiking their local trails (there's no such thing as a "bad" backpacking trip, in the same sense that "the worst day fishing is still better than the best day at work," which I read somewhere once.)

I think Harry Roberts once wrote that people shouldn't stay home thinking about the faraway wonderlands when there were local woods to hike, that "backpacking exists everywhere, and it's good everywhere."