Axiom Lane

As I was writing my final paper for Religion and Ecology it came to my attention how important Lane’s axiom that says, “sacred place can be tred upon without being entered,” is. I was searching through trail journals of people who had thru-hiked or had tried to thru-hike and found that everyone had a different experience on the trail. The most interesting fact I found was that every once in a while you would find people who were doing the hike only for enjoyment and they discovered that it was not any fun because they weren’t finding anything new. They had not gone onto the trail expecting to interact with it and therefore they weren’t interacting.