{"id":1309,"date":"2018-01-19T10:58:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T18:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veritasincorporated.com\n\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2018-07-16T06:28:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:28:08","slug":"finding-way-dark-making-discomfort-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritasincorporated.com\/2018\/01\/finding-way-dark-making-discomfort-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Our Way in the Dark: Making Discomfort Your Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"
It rained all night. My tent was soaked. Earlier that day I tossed my backpack on the Durango-Silverton narrow-gauge railway car and climbed aboard. The train began its clickety-clack along the Animas River in Colorado\u2019s San Juan Mountains. After two-and-and half hours, the train came to a slow stop at a sign that read, \u201cNeedleton.\u201d No roads. No people. There was just a footbridge across the river. Then I began the lonely hike into Chicago Basin which brought me beneath three behemoth 14,000 foot peaks.<\/p>\n