David (david_j_ncba2019)

Race #2798

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Official speed 77.18 wpm (90.80 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start September 3, 2019 7:51:46am UTC
Race Finish September 3, 2019 7:53:17am UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 5)
Opponents 1. dolphingarlic (80.04 wpm)
Accuracy 98.0%
Points 145.36
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It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.