I ' ve moved a lot my whole life different places , schools , hostels trust me that number isn ' t too high . Even friends you hold dearest will fade out given enough distance and time . <| sep |> I hiked the PCT in 2015 . After months of camping and sleeping outside , the scariest thing by far were other hikerscampers . Largely , everyone out there just wants to hike and keep moving , and people are friendly . I had an uneasy feeling for the duration of my hike , but was lulled by everyone ' s reassurance that hikers were some of the coolest people . Well , I ended up getting raped by one of those supposedly super cool hikers . I hiked for a couple weeks after that , but got off trail right over the Washington border . It ' s crazy , I ' ve rehiked that section a few times and I can always pick out exactly the spot he pushed me to the ground , exactly the bushes I cut my hands on , like my own childhood home , I know it intimately .