I feel like hiking is similar to meditation in many ways.

Meditation?

When you first start walking, your head is full of distractions, like how long you've walked, how much more is left, and so on...

But step by step, staring at the ground, you start to think about walking and nothing else.

Before you know it, you forget the passage of time.

It's a shame not being able to look at the sky, though. Also, it seems to me like only thinking about walking would mean you get lost.

We won't get lost with me here.

Right. Guess you wouldn't, Renko.