Legs and Borders

"In their different ways art and philosophy help us turn pain into knowledge." Shopenhauer "People like the idea of thru hiking but not necessarily the process itself." Fomo Today consisted mostly of going downhill to Seiad Valley, I arrived there in the afternoon with a couple of interesting events along the way, heatwave was in full blast and it sucked the will of life from everyone. First of all, I've seen two more bears which doubled my bear count to date. First one was walking on top of the trail and didn't notice me at first, he sat next to a tree looking like Baloo from Jungle Book for a moment, then our eyesight met so he slowly stood up, went behind a tree and started to run away looking like a regular scared black bear again. The second one saw me from far away, he was on the other side of the river and despite the large distance between us, he also run away as fast as he could. Bears make so much noise once they start running it's hard not to ...