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My old map showed 800 miles of trails, but I only walked 200 of them
I was looking at my map from a trip in the Sierra Nevada last fall, and I counted all the marked trails. There were over 800 miles of options on that one map. I thought I had seen a lot of it, but when I added up my own trips from the last five years, I had only covered about 200 miles of that total. It hit me how big these places really are. You could spend a lifetime in one mountain range and still not see half of it. On one hand, it feels good to know there is so much left to find. On the other hand, it makes my usual 30 mile loops feel pretty small. Has anyone else done the math on their own local range and been shocked by how much is still out there?
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clark.robin23d ago
That part about spending a lifetime in one range really got me. I used to think I knew my local woods pretty well until I actually looked at a full trail map. It's a good kind of small feeling, you know?
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green.grant18d ago
My local park trail map looks like a toddler's scribble compared to the real thing. You can walk the same loop for years and still find a new deer path or a hidden creek bend. It keeps the whole place feeling fresh, even when you think you've seen it all.
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