Found my sister! I think I met up with her a few days after this photo was taken. I was envious of her being able to thru-hike - but I made the time to go visit

Found my sister! I think I met up with her a few days after this photo was taken. I was envious of her being able to thru-hike - but I made the time to go visit her along the trail and probably did about 400 miles of it, on and off. Excited for a time I can just say screw it, and walk off into the woods for as long as I want. Always felt most at home living out of a bag, calorie starved enough to take immense pleasure in eating things I would never buy in my normal day to day - but filled to the brim with energy. The rush of hill after mountain after hill is greater than the most doomscrolling-optimized feed, and you feel it with all your senses.