Omg.. that sounded so fun..

I miss hiking like that. Living in the big city makes it a bit hard to do anything outdoorsy without having to drive far, far away...-.- It reminds me so much of a trip I took in high school. (Talk about stealing your spotlight, eh? XD)

My high school class went on a sort of science expedition once, to a provincial park. We'd just hike all day in the trails. It was meant as a science trip too, so we had specific test sites to gather readings of various ecology metrics and whatever, but the hikes were amazing.

Too bad I didn't own a digital camera. Some of the sights were just awesome. We reached a peak of a tall hill at one point several hours into the hike, with a brief clearing and I could see for miles. It was just this massive expansive of forest as far as you could see into the horizon. It's those kinds of iconic memories of nature that stuck with me...

And the stillness at night. The clearness in the air. I guess I don't realize how hazy and inundated I am with city smog and noice pollution here. I remember just walking off at our camp site one particularly clear night. Our teacher did a whole astronomy talk and showed us which shiny things in the sky were parts of which constellations, and which were actually planets, like Jupiter or Venus. Afterwards, I just walked off to find a massive piece of granite just a little ways from the site. And I just laid there to enjoy the quietness. You don't get that kind of experience in the city. Nighttime's fill with the buzz of ventilation systems and the grumbling of automotive enginers, and the air has the permanent heaviness to it that was lifted out in the park, far from here.

One day, I'll go back.. 

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