[at-l] Developing mental toughness for LD hiking

[askowronek at mindspring.com (Amy Skowronek)]

On Dec 6, 2005, at 3:19 PM, Sloetoe wrote:

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> &&& You "personally haven't seen"? Get out there, Shane. Most
> people who're not goal-oriented don't make it very far. As soon
> as it becomes "not any fun any more", they're gone. If you don't
> have the "fire in the belly" -- the grit -- to weather a bad
> patch, you ain't gonna make it. There are PLENTY of bad patches
> on a throughhike. That "somehow rise above" part Weary writes of
> comes by getting down/dirty with your own bad self, and doing
> whatEVER it takes to get to good places (in your head) again. If
> I recall the thread correctly, this is just what Ginny was
> writing of.

The fire in my belly kinda dies out when I don't have a home base to  
go back to for regrouping purposes.  How do you get over the need to  
have a safe place to go to?  Or do you just re-designate your  
sleeping bag as your safe place?

I think this is part of why I'm a section hiker.  I like to hike, I  
like to backpack, but I'm also a homebody and I don't feel quite  
right out on the trail for long periods of time.  Maybe I don't have  
the explorer personality.

-amy