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   CedarTea (cedartea@mstdn.ca)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 03:27:21 JST CedarTea

   • Håkan Geijer

   @hakan_geijer I think you might be onto something with ~5 days. For me, the headspace of the first few days is definitely different than after that and I would put the inflection point at around 4 or 5 days in my experience. The speed of time just feels so altered after that point.

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     CedarTea (cedartea@mstdn.ca)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 04:06:05 JST CedarTea

     • Håkan Geijer

     @hakan_geijer The thought of passing through villages on a hike hadn't occurred to me until you said it. That's definitely a much more European (and to limited extent USian) hiking experience compared to here in Canada. Totally agree though that it would break that backcountry mental state.

     If you ever get the desire and opportunity to do some Canadian hiking, I think you'd probably really enjoy Gros Morne (Newfoundland) or Tombstone (Yukon).

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     CedarTea (cedartea@mstdn.ca)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 04:31:16 JST CedarTea

     • Håkan Geijer

     @hakan_geijer Glad I could help! If you do go, the fishing outports of Newfoundland and the First Nations culture in Yukon both make great bookend experiences for those hikes.

     I'm actually pretty drawn to that SW US high desert as well. Just seems like such a different experience to the types of hikes I'm used to.