When I was a student,
lots of people went on hikes.
It was all the rage.

I was not that kind of a rager.
I was not much of a rager at all, really,
unless someone spoke ill of Chameleon Boy
from DC’s Superboy and the Legion of Super Heroes.
Then, just hold me back!

But clearly, I digress.

I didn’t hike.

Still, when some of my crew went up
to visit the campus last Fall, we went traipsing
in the back part of the campus,
a wooded area that GPS suggested had a special location.
We could not find it.

Two hours search couldn’t find it.
GPS was not proving very specific around there.

My sneakers were not the best for the terrain,
nor my temperament, but we all were stretching thing
by the end of our walk.

It was a lot.

I don’t think I’ll walk again,
when next I go to Hampshire College,
unless I get a sherpa.