[at-l] Developing mental toughness for LD hiking

[garyticknor at starpower.net (Gary Ticknor)]

>### sloetoe respondeth: 
>...  A "safe place" therefore
>(and what a great term) means to me a place where I can
>"explode" my pack (when you read "explode", think of the cover
>photo from The Complete Walker), go through everything,
>refit/refinish/repair as needed, reassemble, and go on, feeling
>tight ... But everything came out,
>everything was inspected, detected, reflected, not-neglected,
>and made ready-to-go, in a distraction- and dirt-free
>environment. 
>

In Engineering, this is known as "Returning to a Known State". I effect, you have performed a "reboot" (pun premeditated).

- Greenbriar