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>Long grueling hike on a unmanned blue blazed trail off the AT in late autumn
>It comes to its end like it started, a junction on the mighty AT
>Turn north to head home, looking for the white blazes
>Cold late autumn winds rustling the trees overhead
>Muscles aching, sweat turning cold as autumn winds blow over you
>You pass the entrance to the blue blazed trail that you turned on to start the hike
>8 hours of rock gardens and elevation changes to get to a point on the AT that if you just stayed on the AT would take under an hour
>The AT takes a turn to the west, the last rays of the sun fighting through the trees warming your face
>Marching onward towards the suns warmth, the days hike fading from the current to the past
>Your hike ends, nothing but the memories in your mind and the photos in the cameras will remain of the hike
>Soon even the memories will fade, the pictures will get pushed to some obscure place to never been looked at again
>This is why you keep hiking, to keep the /out/ fresh in your mind
