Why would hundreds of people trek overnight through the wilderness with nothing but a compass? Because it’s the best feeling in the world. - A wild story I worked on with Doug Bock Clark in West Virginia.
“When you’re navigating well, you and the map and the world merge. You become hyperaware of the slope of the ground, the bends in a valley, how many meters and kilometers your footsteps have paced out. It’s an immersion in oneself and nature, the interior and exterior worlds — harking back to when navigation was essential to humanity’s survival as hunter-gatherers. Your mind attunes itself to magnetic north almost as much as your compass does.” Doug writes.
