(Pbase ate my last attempt to upload this photo.
Apologies to all who left comments previously.)

This weekend, the PCTA (Pacific Crest Trail Association) held its
Trail Festival and annual meeting, here in Seattle.

It was a wonderful day today spent talking trail and
catching up with dear friends.

Long distance hikers are a completely different breed of humanity...
and it seems as though not too many folks in the
"real" world understand what it is that we are driven to do.

It was wonderful to be collectively "understood", if only for a day.