The second half of the trail wove in and out of sunlight, following the creek. I had a solid stride going from the first half, doing about 3 mph, and able to stop and go seamlessly, stepping to the side to let uphill hikers pass. Overall my hiking technique has become effortless enough that i can drift my consciousness inward and find a center point, a center of gravity, in which i become the only fixed point in the universe and the planet spins beneath me flowing scenery past my ears and eyes, and terrain under my feet. Beneath my hands too, as i was using trekking poles to become a four-footed creature.
So here are the sensations: beneath my limbs the trail, moving upwards to me with variation, rocky, sandy, water, wooden spars; along my skin the shadows of higher canyon walls, undulating chill air (50F-) and hugs of sunlight; to the right or left the sound of moving water, sometimes high white noise, sometimes burbling over rocks, sometimes not even audible, and constantly being modulated by the ear-canal of water-cut mountain around me.
I hope you have seen the image of an electroencephalograph, or the track layout of digital music software, or the lines of a musical staff, or the spread of color which comes out of a prism. Because i have seen those images, and seen them in motion, and run my brain through the process of converting light and sound an brainwaves into them. I did this on the trail. To the trail. With the trail.
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Links, in case:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracker_%2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroenc
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