Anybody feel like roaming alone sometimes?

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b9, those pictures are beautiful. Whereabouts do you live?

I feel like this only all the time.

I like to hike to the tops of mountains. Sometimes I wander off the trail and scramble to various peaks and rock outcrops to sit. I'll do this completely alone. The absolute freedom, the vastness of space and distance, I find it almost intoxicating.

Last time I hiked alone I talked to the waitress at an Indian restaurant afterwards. Everyone always asks "Isn't it dangerous to hike alone? What if you get hurt? What if you get lost?". I just shrug my shoulders. I don't take any risks socially, or anywhere else in my life. If I can't hike alone I'll feel completely castrated and choked/suffocated by life. Wandering is the only thing that makes me feel truly happy.

Even if I can't hike I'll go for long drives into the middle of nowhere just to check stuff out. Listening to my music to the visuals of the scenery is half the fun. I like those days where the mountains are shrouded in clouds and you can see wisps of cloud hanging off the slopes. It goes well with my gloomy/spacey musical taste.

Here's some pictures from my most recent hike.

Ebonwinter,
What a wonderful uplifting topic. Great thread! I like your avatar too.

b9 and marshall,
Amazing photos. Thanks to you both for taking the time to post them.

I've always been solitary and roamed my way through life. This thread has me all choked up. As the OP and those lovely photos imply-- I'm not alone in my strangeness (autism) and the things I love about life. Nature has always been, and will always be, my key to happiness and a peaceful heart. I couldn't thrive without it. For me it is sacred. What the rest of you have so freely shared is priceless. It is an honor to be in your cyber presence.

for some reason I feel more at home when in the forest or the snowy field I'm trying to find why and share my enjoyment of this with others

I often love to be out on the water, can avoid all people then...


My self I love the vast open spaces, my husband often goes off bush alone into the forest, up in the mountains... mountain tops another thing the feeling of space and solitude there amazing...

what an incredible place that is. thanx for uploading the photos.

yes. love to wander alone. one of my criteria for a new place is live is: "can i hike here?" the second question is "for how long?"

it feels like a way of re-charging to me. i love the solitude of it, and the quiet, and the sense of being a little bit free of things.

So I guess each of us get the call of the wilds' luring call.

But I find it awkward when I run into humans Kentucky is considered by many "unexplained creatures" country it also doesn't help I enjoy making an low mourning echo kind of howl

Here is an old picture earlier this year at a place in Kentucky named pine mountain.





I wish I could find the pictures of the abandoned buildings in that region

Oh, yes, I like to wander... only I can't do it all that often/on my own.

^Ah. Well I live in a city, but that's not why.

I just... get lost quite easily.

Oh found one this playground is no where near the abandoned town sorta creepy