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Hike Mates and Rescue Mutts
December 05, 2022 What's in a hike? C.K., their rescue mutts, and I packed and hiked at a nearby State Park. I had an annual State Parks pass.
Dis-Ability into Hike-Ability
12/01/22 AT in 23 even rhymes! It's been a challenging year. In Feb. of 2022, I fell, literally on my arse ending up in the hospital, with a
Congratulations dinner
7/21 Weird? It all seems a bit unreal, this plunge into reality. Folks who've been hiking in other lands "get it." It's a bit weird. The folks
CT-2023?
Drive back to Texas was brutal. It was hard keeping eyes open. Legs and feet felt like logs. What was that smell? Oh, me! Stopped in Lubbock,
Watercolors on CT?
7/03/22: Recall reading about importance of art on Trail. Nature is a patient, primordial. Isabella Pardales took a pared-down version of her
Lost then…..
Well, coulda been worse....much worse.... To say: "I'm lost" carries some hubris. We are always somewhere. Then, I remembered a map-reading skill,
Coriolis Effect
7/01/22 Ok, I'm lost. Well, am somewhere. I remember something learned from school science light years ago: The Coriolis Effect. Water either
Angst?
7/02/22 Angst? Really, most understand. Met some 20-somethings schlepping the CT who had to "share". Jeez, What are we: unpaid shrinks?
Mountain cold
6/30 Lousy technology along Trail. Maybe it's my phone. A good map and compass preferable anyway. Scenery: other worldly. Forgot how cold is