I was hiking up to the Kanarraville Falls with Ford. We passed an older man with a walking stick and a straw hat. He asked Ford, “Are your shoes wet yet?”
Ford looked at his boots and said, “No, are they going to be?”
Up to this point, we’d been stepping carefully on rocks and logs to cross back and forth over the river so our shoes were still relatively dry.
The man with the walking stick pointed at his own shoes, dripping water into the dirt where he stood.
He said, “There gets to a point that I call the f*** it moment.”
Ford and I both laughed and the old man carried on stomping down the middle of the river.
Sometimes you have your plan, your routine, your diet, your rules. And then an opportunity comes along to have some fun and get off the trail and hike straight up the river.
Don’t be afraid to get your shoes wet.