[Paddlewise] Wilderness: Isolation or Adventure?

<<What about the rest of you?  I know many others on this list have spent 
weeks
as a twosome (the Dempseys, for instance) or a fewsome, anyway.  What changes
for you?>>

I have no solo experience kayaking, but I've soloed for as long as 16 days at 
a time in Patagonia and Alaska. I've also done countless 2-man treks of 10 
days or more. Those backpacking trips do indeed slow me down. My temperment 
after one of those trips has been described as "glacial". Very 
process-oriented, methodical, relaxed, with a tendency to talk to myself 
about everything. Isolation also seems to me to cultivate a sense of 
optimism. I think I laugh more when isolated.

douglas montgomery
san francisco
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