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<\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI didn\u2019t end up finishing it. I did two of the three planned days, and both of those days took longer than I had expected them to take. If I had done the planned 20-ish miles on Sunday as I had planned to do, and things went the same as they had gone the two previous days, I was looking at getting home really late, with no time to get the usual weekend errands done (and probably coming home to a wife angry about it all). So I came home early and called it good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAside from that, the trip went well. I found out some things about gear that I took that worked and didn\u2019t work for me, figured out some stuff I didn\u2019t need to bring in the future, and discovered that I\u2019d rather be out with other people and not just by myself. That doesn\u2019t mean that I wouldn\u2019t do a solo trip again, but I understand now that I associate the camping at night part of backpacking with socializing with friends, and I missed that a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe one downside to bailing out is that I\u2019m now 0\/2 on attempts to do a full circuit of the trail, and that is really bugging me. One of these days in the not-too-distant future, I am going to go out and finally complete it in one go, whether that is backpacking, or running, or whatever. One trip=one circuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was a very Type 2 Fun kind of trip. There were things about it that I didn’t enjoy while I was out there, but after finishing and with some time to think about it since then I have really been missing it. I want to get back out and do another trip like it again soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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