Jessica Buhler ~Appalachian Trail

The Appalachian Trail, a place of remoteness and self-discovery, a place where I hope I too can find my own inner strength and a better understanding of faith. Like many before me, I feel as though this trail of wonders and mystery serves to better a person’s soul. After doing my own research for an essay I wrote on women and therapy by experiencing the wilderness alone, I feel that this the trail or any trail at that matter does better a person. Hiking along the trail gives a person the chance to explore themselves. Awaking in the early morning to a light misty fog that rolled in over night makes a person feel so alone. Being alone is where a person really figures out who they are. I have camped several times and being in the middle of the woods is different and makes me feel and experience different things I have never felt before. The trail I know would be a wonderful place that could help me once again experience those feelings.