I’m returning to “normal life” after a month of hiking in northern Sweden. I carried everything I needed on my back for a month. I’m returning to a house with 25 years of accumulated stuff that really needs to be cleared out. What do I really need? The Sami lived for thousands of years in the harsh arctic environment with little more than wood and earth huts and lots of reindeer. You use what you can get.

A quote I like from the book “Hiking Through” goes:

“If you can’t carry it on your back, or in your heart, you don’t need it”