I’m taking off on my own two feet. I’m going to clear my head…to listen to trees and silence, to see if I can still breathe…
I’m going to be alone with myself, to feel how it feels to embrace what my feet tell my head, what wind says in my good ear.

~ Philip Booth

Steep Creek Falls, Skamania County, Gifford Pinchot National Forest – photo by Sandy’s NW Hiking Photos, used with permission