glowingfish

I tried to walk across the continental divide today, on a road that didn't exist.
It started out as a gravel road, that got to a gate, and that then turned into a grass road that went up for about a half mile before dead ending in a gigantic pipe coming out of the ground...and a muddy trail that I thought might go somewhere but then disappeared in the rainforest.
I went up the trail, thinking that it might turn into a rough but passable trail, but no.
And the thing that is hard to describe, was how lost and scared I felt when I was really only 50-100 feet up that trail...only a half mile from a house, but with the sudden realization that if I slipped on the muddy trail and fell down a ledge, I was really really out there.
I am 45. Maybe tramping around roads that don't exist in the rain forest isn't the best planning on my part?
But sometimes it pays off.