NATIONAL DAY

It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.Cheryl StrayedTheres a lot that could be said about Take a Hike Day, but it seems that this excerpt from Cheryl Strayeds book, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail says it all just perfectly.