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2024-03-08 & 09 - Picture is Sandy who is the first Desert Trail "Trail Angel" I have had. She gave me fresh straw berries & an orange slice plus good conversation. A real nice lady. This

2024-03-05 & 06 - Zoom in on the picture to see bloody pants! Melanie drove me back to where I ended my walk yesterday. I headed out on the railroad tracks to avoid the heavily overgrown section

03-04-2024 Day 1 We are staying at the Jacumba Hot Springs Hotel. What a GREAT place. We had breakfast in bed delivered to us at 7:00am this morning, what a treat! Good food too! Then I went and

March 2 & 3 2024 Who would have thought that the first two days of our trek would be so dramatic! We left really early on Saturday morning at 4:45am. The Montana portion of the drive through

2024-02-25 The Desert Trail trip is coming up fast…over 2,000 miles from the CA border with Mexico to Canada. I will be the trail angel this time and Yeti will hike. Yeti and I have been planning

I did a van tour at Tippet Rise on Sunday, June 18th. The tour drives you around the park to 6 monumental sculptures. You can walk up close and around the artwork. The driver, Bill, is a sculptor and

Arrow Leaf Balsamroot - North Cottonwood I’ve done some great wildflower hikes with my BWAG cohort (Lauran, Deb, Gina, Val) and with Yeti. Some of the great spots for the early wildflowers have

Yeti and I went down to Utah so I could make another attempt to finish the Hayduke Trail in 2023. I was going to be hiking with Dave Greenwood this year. Our route would start at Hite, a section I

Mike, Melanie, & Yeti Celebrating Finishing IBT Check out these essential hiker guide’s for treks on the Pacific Northwest Trail (PNT) and the Idaho Boundary Trail (IBT), a hiker created route

Bunch of Apples - Maine Orchard 10/4/2022 – 10/12/2022 I embarked on my first trip east since spring of 2019, arriving in Boston on October 4th. Deb and I had a short one-day rest, walking around