The most important thing that you must learn on the trail is not to fret and fume over trifles, and even if your load is heavy and irksome, even though the shoulder straps chafe and the tump line or canoe on one's head makes your neck ache, remember that you are being initiated into the great fraternity of outdoor people. And even though a lady should be met on the trail it would not be necessary for one to take off one's hat, for even a foolish society woman would not expect a man to doff the canoe he might be carrying on his head. Under all circumstances use common sense; that is the rule of the wilderness and of real culture.
From THE BOOK OF CAMP-LORE
AND WOODCRAFT
Dan Beard - 1920