that pre hike anticipation feeling

There’s a feeling unlike anything else. Waking up early, or starting late. The sun isn’t yet risen, or it’s just starting to set. The sky is blue, the peaks are shining, the slope ahead in full view. Walking up to the trailhead, mapping out your path up, a view just waiting to be seen.

It’s a hard feeling to fully describe - That feeling of knowing you are about to embark on a journey, knowing it will be hard, knowing it will challenge you, knowing there will be moments of doubt, of pain, of suffering, of exhaustion. But, no matter what, every. single. time. It’s always worth it.

Taking that first step is the hardest, and it only gets harder from there.

The active choice to climb up a mountain is not for the feeble hearted.

And it’s not just literal mountains, is it?

Here we go.