How can you describe the psychological factors a person must prepare for.... the despair, the alienation, the anxiety and especially the pain, both physical and mental, which slices to the very heart of the hiker's volition, which are the real things that must be planned for? No words can transmit those factors, which are more a part of planning than the elementary rituals of food, money and equipment, and how to get them.
--Jim Podlesney, in Pacific Crest Hike Planning Guide
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