I hike and the journey is truly more important than the destination. This poem is about journey, soul and elation.

One step taken up the trail
A heavy weight is shouldered
From here to thereI must not fail
My heart and soul is on this trail.
My heart beats fast.
I’m so excited.
My dream has just come true .
Each moment passes my smile grows wider.
My soul is now ignited.
A step, a slip, a single drop of rain
Now the sun shines bright this day as Springer Mountain rises up to kiss my sky.
I laugh with pure elation!
This is life as I wish with such raw sensations.
The breezes blow along the ridge noisily.
Traveling with me in the branches far above,the gray squirrels announce an intruder.
They tell all that I don’t belong here.

But yet, I do, I am a man of these mountains.