[at-l] What's backpacking mean to you?

[Logan Park]

Here I sit on a Saturday night relearning differential eq math, so I can 
simulate hikers in computer models.  Not my idea of fun.  Figured it 
would help to remind myself why all this work is worth it in the first 
place. 

So let's hear it!  What makes you walk out onto a trail time and again, 
knowing you're gonna be gross by the end, tired, etc.?  Is it, like for 
Tin Man, a chance to reconnect with the God of your youth?  Or, like for 
me, a chance to prove to yourself you 'have what it takes'?  Or probably 
something else? 

Hoplite