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18 or 19. I was a boy scout when I was younger, and got less interested in camping and, to a larger extent, all the goofy ceremony, so I quit when I went to high school.
Then I went off to college in an /out/ kind of area and started going camping alone for a couple days nearby, realized how much I enjoyed it, and by the time I graduated I was taking multi-month trips alone.
>tfw you're alone in the woods after dark and it's tens of miles to the nearest person who could help you if something happened, so it's just you and the woods.
