A New Window to the World....

Long distance hiking adds a new window to your world.  Not only does it tie together disparate landscapes but it tunes your body and mind to a far richer world.  Long days spent on the trail gives your mind time to relax and your cardiovascular system time to strengthen the mind body connection.  Your senses are enhanced to the point that when you do re-enter civilization at the next town or city the world is full of vivid new impressions.  

After days of receiving your sensory input in relaxing doses that millions of years of evolution of living in a natural world has primed our bodies to receive, the sensory overload of color alone found in the thousands of items in a small rural store is like taking a psychedelic drug.  Suddenly you see our civilization in a whole new way and are entranced by everyday luxuries that most of us take for granted.

If you want to learn more about hiking the long distance trails of North America, please feel free to contact me at raincloudtreefarm@gmail.com.  Over the past eight years I have given illustrated talks on hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, the Continental Divide Trail, the Great Divide Trail (the Canadian Rockies), the Long Trail (the length of Vermont) and the Hayduke Trail (Southern Utah).  You can also learn about the US Forest Service and get a glimpse of a hikers life by reading my book Pilgrimage to the Edge: the Pacific Crest Trail and the US Forest Service that can be obtained at either Amazon.com or thru Exlibris publishing.