Hiking Quotes

I made a conscious effort to name my needs and desires. To carefully listen to and accurately identify what I felt. Hunger, exhaustion, cold, lower-back ache, thirst. The ephemeral pangs: wistfulness and loneliness. Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament.

~ Aspen Matis

Maybe I'd die. Maybe I'd burn to ash in wind, or blacken like the pines. Charred skeletons, I'd add one to the count. I didn't feel scared. I didn't think to panic. The trail wasn't burning. I was raw, ripe for loving. I wasn't stopping.

~ Aspen Matis

.. And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade.

~ Cheryl Strayed

If I could mark clearly, convincingly and consistently what was good for me and also what was bad—if I could say yes and also no, as if it were the law—it would become my law.

~ Aspen Matis

I had once again proven that again alone, I was again enough.

~ Aspen Matis

Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.

~ Jack Kerouac

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

~ Ed Viesturs

I'm into outdoor sports like hiking, windsurfing, water-skiing.

~ Nikki Reed