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goobster · 1682 days ago · link · · parent · post: UTAH TRIP REPORT or: How I Learned Not To Hike Alone by Breaking My Leg
So... I've spent a goodly amount of time traveling, some of it alone, and I am mostly interested in why you would go on such a trip alone? This is, like, the first rule of stepping outside of civilization: Don't go alone. Is it just young white dude hubris? Or were you trying to prove something? Or paid a lot of money and your friend canceled last minute? You did something stupid and got hurt. But you didn't have to do something stupid to get hurt... you can have simply stepped wrong. Or encountered an animal that was simply in a bad mood. Or choked on a PowerBar. I'm curious about the thinking behind, "I'm going to go alone out into the wilderness, against all the advice of people who do this a lot, and common sense. Because ____________ ..."