Four years ago now, I traveled to Cimarron, New Mexico to hike on through Philmont Scout Ranch. It was an 80+ mile trek with one layover day. My expectations were mixed and my nerves were high. As we began our trip dropped off a few miles away from base camp, I realized the reality of the experience I was entering. After discussing in class the idea that you really need almost a week to really enter into the flow of a long distance hike. I reflected upon my own hike and found this to be very true, once a couple days in I felt my crew to be closer, the hike to be less of a burden more of an experience, embracing some of the smaller things about the trip. Then the feeling of really being away from it all set in, Dr. Redick called this distanceation I believe which I took as not just physically distancing oneself from the normal but also distancing oneself from many of life's distractions. I began to better recognize the beauty around me in nature, I felt so free from technology, from a society that through this trip I came to realize is not taking the time to center themselves on the important things in life. My faith grew not long after this trip in an incredible way and I desire to return to entire into to another journey of getting away from it all.
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