If you have backpacked at all you have experienced it to one degree or another. It's that inexplicable bit of kindness extended to you, oftentimes when you need it most, and becomes such a memorable part of your remembrances of the hike. Its almost as though we send out some undetected signal when the "magic" is really, really needed and, behold, along it comes, in some fashion or another. I think it would be interesting to read what Trail Magic others have experienced.