"I found what I needed in nature. It's amazing, and it's just hard to describe what it truly does for you. You can be pissed off at the world and take a walk into the woods, and five feet into the woods, you're not pissed off anymore," Clendenning, 43, said. "Honestly, if I wouldn't have done the trail, I would have committed suicide or I would still be a raging alcoholic. That's the truth."