Mark’s Photos #21
It was the end of my morning training hike on a day in April of 2024. The sun was about to come up, and Canadian geese were arriving by the virtual busload to one...
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Mark’s Photos #20
It was the year of the pandemic, 2020. I was out on a morning hike in November. The air was crisp, the days were short, and the leaves had turned. As I walked the...
Mark’s Photos #19
In February of 2022 I was on a training hike out west of Eugene early in the morning. The overcast sky lent an air of winter to the scene, as I walked on the...
Mark’s Photos #18
Along the Continental Divide Trail in New Mexico you traverse a series of mesas between the towns of Grants and Cuba. Right out of a western movie set, these sheer sided flat top hills...
Mark’s Photos #17
After a toe ligament tear took me off the Arizona Trail for several months, I returned in the fall to complete the 800-mile trail. I had left off in Flagstaff, so I returned there...
Mark’s Photos #16
John and I had detoured off the PCT to walk out via Kearsarge Pass, a 7.5-mile and 2,300-foot climb from the trail. We did this to pick up supplies in the tiny town of...
2 responses to “Mark’s Photos #16”
Thanks for taking me to America’s version of K2 or Everest. One mile in two hours!! Sounds like great courage. Do you see it that way?
Courage is one way to put it. Foolhardiness is another. It was the only way forward at the time, so John and I did it. It was mostly as simple as that. Like manny things, it didn’t take “great” courage. Just incremental courage to move down one step at a time.😄