{"id":15,"date":"2007-05-25T16:05:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T21:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2008-01-05T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T01:43:08","slug":"away-from-it-all-with-solo-backpacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Away from it all, with solo backpacking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently spent three days backpacking\u00a0 the Tuscarora Trail on Blue Mountain.\u00a0 I saw no one the whole time and had a great time.\u00a0 It was pleasant and natural, and everything went well.\u00a0 But it is curious some of the comments that I received.<\/p>\n

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  1. “Weren’t you scared?\u00a0 Someone might attack you.”\u00a0 Well, the most dangerous part of the trip was the drive getting there (northwest of Carlisle, PA), and next would be doing the errands that were required in preparation.\u00a0 Why do folks see nature as so inherently scary,\u00a0 absent the protective veneer of\u00a0 “civilization?”\u00a0 A few expressed concern about bears, which is a minimal risk compared to daily life.<\/li>\n
  2. “No cell phone. Oh no!”\u00a0\u00a0 Somehow, cell phone communication equals civilization and makes everything Okay.<\/li>\n
  3. “You didn\u2019t talk to anyone the whole time?”\u00a0 Well, there was no one else there.\u00a0 “Didn’t you at least talk to the animals?”\u00a0 Folks know that I’m a talker, but that doesn’t mean that I hallucinate or discuss things with Mr. Box Turtle.<\/li>\n
  4. “Everyone needs a break from their spouse sometime.”\u00a0 No, that’s not why I went backpacking.\u00a0 I’d have loved if Fran could have come, but she had to work and I had a bit of free time between submitting semester grades and graduation.\u00a0 Fran was supportive, and I’d have felt the same for her if the situation had been reversed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Pictures are available at www.Sheldontimes.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I recently spent three days backpacking\u00a0 the Tuscarora Trail on Blue Mountain.\u00a0 I saw no one the whole time and had a great time.\u00a0 It was pleasant and natural, and everything went well.\u00a0 But it is curious some of the comments that I received. “Weren’t you scared?\u00a0 Someone might attack you.”\u00a0 Well, the most dangerous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recreation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}