Now there’s something anyone who’s ever hiked a long trail can identify with. The value of thru-hiking goes way behind the physical.

“I needed to figure out how to move forward even though I felt like I couldn’t, and enduring so much physical suffering taught me how to endure emotional suffering. When you have to walk over all types of terrain through all kinds of weather with a very heavy pack on your back, it teaches you something vital about how to move forward and how to just keep walking even when you can’t …”
—Cheryl Strayed