I'm brand new here, and my "hiking" experiences are 180 degrees out from some in many respects, but a lot of the comments posted really resonate with my. I'm going to be 44 soon, and I've never taken the time to adventure or explore at my own pace. That's perhaps because the adventure I experience in my day job, raising children the past 17 yrs, and having a wive who has never been an outdoors person dissuaded me from getting out there and doing it.

These posts remind me that I love sleeping under an open sky and pondering life at the end of a hard day, and future happiness may just well be a function of getting out there and doing it.

Thank you.