"…after walking for days, coming home bugbitten, shins bruised, nose peeling, feet and hands swollen, I feel ablaze with life.  I suspect that the canyons give me an intensified sense of living partly because I not only face the basics of living and survival, but carry them on my back.  And in my head.  And this intense personal responsibility gives me an overwhelming sense of freedom I know nowhere else."
-Ann Zwinger