Wilderness

Fire up your matches IN THE WILDERNESS

LOOK OUT FOR PHOTOS WHERE THE PERSON IS IN THE WILDERNESS IN A LOCATION THAT ISN’T A GREAT WALK OR THE TONGARIRO ALPINE CROSSING.

Their eyes met over the line of wet socks hanging in the hut. What were his intentions, she wondered, as he wrote his next destination in the hut book. When she whipped out a bag of marshmallows to toast over the fire, he knew she’d kindled the flame.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, gentle reader, that

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