I went on a backpacking trip a few weeks ago with 2 friends in the White Mountains. We summited Mount Bond at around midnight, 2 days before the new moon. It wa

I went on a backpacking trip a few weeks ago with 2 friends in the White Mountains. We summited Mount Bond at around midnight, 2 days before the new moon. It was such a beautiful experience, I've never seen the Milky Way like that before. Despite being exhausted and still over a mile between us and the campsite we were heading to, without a word we all took off our packs, laid down on the rocks, and spent almost an hour looking at the sky. There's something very humbling about being able to see so clearly how minuscule our place in the universe really is.