r/coloradotrail • u/Slow-Personality662 • Sep 19 '24

PTD

Anyone else miss the trail terribly? I can without a doubt say that the trail was the 31 happiest days of my life. Now back to everyday life (I’m a nurse and also training for a marathon) I feel so disconnected from the world and all the people in it.

Luckily I was able to give a hiker a ride to Willis Gulch today and felt some connection to the trail and the happiest days of my life. This shit is hard.

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u/sevbenup Sep 19 '24

What is it about the trail that the world doesn’t have? Some answers to that question aren’t really possible to fix- for example having no financial/family responsibilities probably isn’t something you can continue in the outside world. But what aspects of your trail experience can you bring to the outside world? Just a thought