Sublime

We can’t get past the wolves. And that’s okay. Because if you banish the wolf, you banish the hero. And if there’s one thing I learned: We all need to be the hero of our own story.

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I lived wild, or as wild as one could be with a warm living room to return to.

our cave might be nothing, but it also might be a bear. We wouldn’t have survived as a species if we didn’t treat every shadow like a bear.

I joined a walking group. I’d always loved nature, but I’d kept it a closely guarded secret. Just the idea of being seen in an anorak! But I started going out with this group every Sunday. Sometimes during the week too. They were mostly retirees, and really there was no point me trying to impress them with my repartee because half of them had heari

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Beyond Backpacking, a guide to lightweight hiking by the protean Ray Jardine:

I was cool eating meals with sand in. I was fine with the smell of elephant shit. I was OK with not sleeping well. I knew that I could suffer. I knew that I could go to some very dark places – right to the bottom of the barrel – and somehow climb back out again.’