Gila Wilderness On Fire
Well, there has been some unfortunate, if not unexpected, news this last week. A small lightning-caused fire on the extreme western border of the Gila Wilderness started on April 20th. Known as the Hummingbird...
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Mark’s Photos #9
“BAM!!” The car bottomed out again! Note to self, “Don’t take the Corolla up a jeep trail again.” “BAM!!” Ron, another UofA grad student, and I were coaxing my little car up a two-track...
A Little of This and That
I fly to Albuquerque in less than three weeks on the 15th of May. But Nancy and I have a 5-day trip scheduled just before I leave for New Mexico. So it means I...
Mark’s Photos #8
Hiking the CDT, I had camped at Mormon Springs, located on a spur of the Oregon Trail in the Great Divide Basin of southern Wyoming. Mormon Springs was a bit of a misnomer as...
Confessions of a Serial Hobbyist
This week I thought I might talk about the menu for my upcoming trip. Which got me thinking of the time, several years ago, that I created freeze-dried dinners for nine people for five...
Mark’s Photos #7
It was mid-June of 2022 and I was in northern Massachusetts hiking the Appalachian Trail. For most of the afternoon I had been climbing 3,489 foot Mt. Greylock, the highest peak in the state,...
6 responses to “Mark’s Photos #7”
Love this blog! Jarred my memory of similar scouting experiences and all the fun and excitement of the campouts! And wow what a pretty little lake!
Thanks OZ! In many ways I’m still that 12 year old boy. Especially when I’m out in nature. I suspect you are, too. We were lucky to have had those scouting experiences. 😀
I’m with Oscar. Love this blog. Good to have the backstory to the young campers and the once younger camper. Stunning picture. This is one of the places you’ve hiked that Hannah and I’ve hiked. Has it been four years since we chatted you up at the McDonald’s in Lee, MA! Very cool serendipity, indeed.
Dan, Thanks for the nice comment. Did you and Hannah happen to hike by the little pond in the picture? I could not find a name for it anywhere. And, yes, I looked up, it will be four years on June 8th. Happy trails my friend.
I don’t believe we did hike by. We have an annual trek on the AT to Upper Goose Pond to the south of Greylock. Might you have stayed at the cabin at UGP? In fact, in two weeks on our way to see our daughter Robyn in Syracuse, we’ll coffee and biscuit at the very same McDonald’s and hike the four-mile round trip from the trailhead on Route 20 to UGP!
No, I missed Goose Pond, which is actually why I was in Lee that day. I was rejoining the AT having walked up from Great Barrington. Say hi to the McD’s for me.😄