Speaking with many people who love walking, but never do nights, I realized something quite bizarre: many consider a course of several days more difficult than a long walk. According to them have not necessarily done a lot of walking puts you in a position to face a trek with overnight stays, ready to face a Night Out!
Paradoxically … is exactly the opposite!
How many times have we heard repeated what should be the basics of who goes to the mountain?
1 – We start at dawn and come back soon
2 – Never leave the path
These two basic rules are used to ward off a terrible nightmares of hikers: Get lost! To lose the way and not know to go back. If I go back soon, and the hours I lost my way in the event wildcard, if not abandoned the path, well, it’s much harder than I lose.
But losing is not alone, is paired with another nightmare: Bad weather, the time change without notice taking us by surprise!
And indeed these two are perhaps the most tangible risks for those who enjoy hiking.
Well, in a trek these risks do not exist!
Are you lost? And ‘fallen fog and you can not understand where you are on paper? It’s coming in the evening and you’re not where you thought it was? And ‘the trail disappeared?
And who cares! 
Pitched his tent, made a nice dinner and we will get back tomorrow with calm.
The weather has changed suddenly? The temperature is falling fast? You walked in flowery meadows, and now you’re in the middle of a blizzard?
And who cares! Pitched his tent, made a nice dinner and we will get back tomorrow with calm.
So you see, a trek of several days makes us easier relationship with the mountain (as long as organized as we will explain soon), but especially in the mountains to sleep makes us more freedom in their relationship with nature!
I do not like waking up at dawn, and in fact I do not, the stages of my treks begin at 10 am, after a pleasant chat at breakfast with my friends … And maybe there is still the sunset on the way, why not?
Sometimes it’s nice to get lost on purpose to abandon the path to explore or climb a rocky ridge to the summit of a mountain looking intriguing. There will be time later to find the path ahead … And if you find your path, you’ll find another, fine same, right?