Attitude: Making Boring Interesting
Somewhere along the line I realized that “boring” is just an attitude, and attitudes can be changed. Now long hikes are composed of long days walking long miles. Many of those miles are going...
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Mark’s Photos- #31
The Wind River Range of Wyoming is a spectacular place. It is full of rugged mountains, precipitous cirques, and landscapes teeming with lakes and rivers. It was July of 2019, and I had just...
Arizona Blizzard
It was the Fall of 2017 and Scatman and I had just spent three days hiking through the Grand Canyon. We were on the Arizona Trail (AZT) and upon emerging from the abyss, we...
Mark’s Photos- #30
To day I came across a photo from the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in 2014. High in the Sierra Mountains on a section of the PCT that is also shared with the John Muir...
Where is the trail?
In keeping with my recent posts of random trail memories, I present yet another tidbit from the trail. I return to the Continental Divide Trail (CDT) once again. This time, a musing on what...
Mark’s Photo’s- 29
The year was 2020. It was August, and I should have been finishing up the last 400 miles of the Continental Divide Trail. In the spring, plans had been made and tickets bought. I...
3 responses to “Mark’s Photo’s- 29”
The table reminds me of the creative “tabling” by Wade Kavanaugh at the Peaks-Kenny State Park in Millinocket, Maine. https://over60hiker.wordpress.com/2026/08/20/great-maine-scavenger-hunt-2026-peaks-kenny-state-park-dover-foxcroft-maine-25-down-3-to-go/
Like you, I love the planning of trips. My latest is to Tahoe and Kings Canyon, and Sequoia National Parks. We are skipping Yosemite in 2027 because the current administration has eliminated the reservation system which keeps Yosemite from being a “Times Square” mass of madness of congestion and traffic!
That table I was using had nothing of the charm or whimsy that the W.K. tables had. It was a chuck of plywood nailed to the tree with a make shift leg.
Yosemite. It will be loved to death with out some limits. That’s a shame.
Amen!