Hard lessons

While on a six-mile hike recently, I came to know several things to be true. 

Well, one central thing.

Gear wears out.

Those hiking boots you got from Scarpa to test, the ones with the narrow toe box and you lost four toenails while on a 68-mile trek across the Continental Divide Trail in the Wind River Range in Wyoming? Yeah, they still have too narrow a toe box.

Gone. 

That daypack your ex-wife’s grandparents gave you for your birthday? It still doesn’t fit, unless you like wearing the hip belt basically across the area where your liver is located. 

Gone.
At least I know what to get myself for Christmas.