If there is a hiking trail might as well take it all the way to the end.

Hiking is perhaps the easiest outdoor activity to start, since it does not require expensive professional equipments to begin. However, it is infinitely challenging – this is something you will know once you finish the first strenuous hike and start to hear more stories about other amazing places that require longer distance and higher elevation hikes. Once you get to the point where overnight hiking (it’s called backpacking) is something not too intimidating, you are probably one of us crazy hikers.

そこに山があるから、登る。

登山の面白さは初心者でも始めるのは容易く数を重ねるうちに自分を磨き更に難易度の高いコースにチャレンジしてみたくなることだ。

必要最低限の食料と道具だけを持って山に入り、現地の限られた資源を上手に使い自足自給の生活をする。自然に触れるだけではなく自然に回帰する。携帯電話の電波も届かない、舗装された道も無い山奥で太陽の光だけを頼りに時間という定義の無い環境に生きる。そういった原始的な環境に置かれて人は自身たちもこの地球の一住人に過ぎないという事実と直面することになる。缶詰のツナフレークや湿気ったビスケットすら美味に感じられるのは、食料のありがたみを本物の飢えが教えてくれるからだろう。現代人が山に戻るべき時期が来ている。これは現代の発展しすぎてしまった環境に本能を鈍らせている僕自身が真剣に思っているところである。

Backpacking is my favorite type of hiking. Basically, you enter the trail with all the essential gears including tent, sleeping bag, sleeping pad, and food and camp in the middle of nature along the trail to hike further to more dramatic (or what I prefer calling EPIC) sites. When you pitch the tent in the middle of field soon you will realize there is very feeble cellphone reception to set your head back to the city. In the wild, the pace of passing time is as arbitrary as wind. You wake up with the sunrise and sleep as the moon glows brighter than your torchlight; time count on the watch does not necessarily take control of your day cycle here in the wild.
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When you camp, you may also find true appreciation in food. It is sometimes amazing to feel *pure hunger like the one you feel at the camp site.

*Pure hunger is body’s urging call to refuel after 4 hours of hiking with 20-30 lbs of weight on your back 🙂

I cannot say that I play good part in protecting the environment on day to day basis, but being out in the nature even just for a weekend really makes me conscious about using the available resource wisely. Less is usually more, or better to say more can only become burden when it is excessive. Just like Buddhist monks who go out to the mountain to detach themselves from all the societal greed to enter ‘satori’ (self-realization), quiet and uninterrupted “clean” mind can truly aid one’s will to find inner peace. Take only what you need and cherish it. Enjoy it while it lasts. When there is less noise to come in to your ears your mind will be focused sharper. I cannot recommend more about backpacking to anyone my age who lives on the busy cross streets of technology. If you are alive and well, it is almost crime not to do it. You are missing out what this incredible world has to offer.

+Photos are taken at Botchers Gap Trail in Central California located near Big Sur. Pictures on top of the mountain with campfire and people are taken at the Pat Springs Campsite located approximately 7 miles into the trail. 1st Day of hike concluded at this campsite and turned back following day on the same trail to the trailhead with additional 2 mile extra hike to Mt. Carmel. The total distance of hike was approximately 16 miles. Elevation gain ~2500ft.