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Two years before the Community
Sara had not grown up hiking. Her parents were too lazy for it, too suburban to take their children on real camping trips that involved a longer walk than the twenty feet from the car to the tent. Backpacking had been introduced to her in college, when it seemed like that was all any Bay Area twenty-something wanted to do on the weekends, and she’d gone along with it skeptically.
How much prettier could the woods look after a day of hauling heavy gear on your back? How could it possibly be worth it?
She’d protested so much, in fact, that when she went and fell in love with it, she was embarrassed to admit just how wrong she had been. Getting out in nature, uncontactable and quiet amid the enormity of the mountains and trees, made her feel small and inc
