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Several of my reports were published in the Arizona Daily Sun during 2015, including:
A Bridge Not Too Far - Harvey Butchart Natural Bridge (from the 2012 North Bass Nirvana Report) Skirting The Rim, Arizona Trail segment above Walnut Canyon (day trip) A Junket to Remember, Circumnavigating the Tetons and Yellowstone is a Bike Touring dream Come True (from the 2014 Jackson Junket self-contained bicycle touring Report) Lily Pads and Long Vistas, Sycamore Canyon Loop (day trip)See the entire slate of WV reports here.
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Here is a sampling of my favorite 2015 videos. You may find more in the above trip reports. Enjoy!
Hi, Rob here. A Solstice Saturnalia Salutation to you! "I found myself feeling sorry for any man who was not free to abandon whatever futility detained him and walk away into the desert morning with a pack on his back." Colin Fletcher, The Thousand-Mile Summer. I am writing this note to say Happy Solstice and Happy New Year! I hope you are well and that you greatly enjoyed 2015. This is my traditional year-end report. Rather than bore you with lots of text here - I refer you to lots of boring text and mundane photos and videos via links. My ankle is still recovering from its breakage in the Needles District of Canyonlands. It's OK, yet complains about too much angled slickrock walking, I have new scars from another hernia surgery, then, there are continuing (although greatly ameliorated) issues and concerns from plantar fasciitis (inflammation of the dense fibrous band of tissue of the sole of the foot that is marked especially by heel or arch pain), and some other important body parts were punctured in 2015. Argh, the medical procedures seem never ending. A data sketch from 2015 includes:
Hiking - total miles = 1316.3
(ERM* = 1961.0)
of which Backpacking = 397.5 miles (ERM* = 643.4)
Bicycling - total miles = 1003.3 (all day tours in 2015) *ERM - Energy Required Miles. A mile is added for every 500' elevation gain or loss. It's a very serviceable method of estimating energy required miles. Thanks to co-adventurers who enhanced the fun in the above trips, including Kathleen, Jeremy W., Wendy L., Dave R., and Cheryl S. Thanks one and all. The adorable Kathleen and I plan to continue to enjoy what is left of our public lands in 2016 :-)) We wish you the very best. Finally, please remember, wherever you go there you are. Let's all work for more peace and less repulsican. Take good care, Rob "Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals, but it is also a refuge from society. It's a place to go to hear the wind and little else, see the stars and the galaxies, smell the pine trees, feel the cold water, touch the sky and the ground at the same time, listen to coyotes, eat fresh snow, walk across the desert sands, and realize why it's good to go outside of the city and the suburbs." John Muir The wilderness once offered men a plausible way of life, now it functions as a psychiatric refuge. Soon, there will be no wilderness. Soon there will be no place to go. Then the madness becomes universal. And the universe goes mad. Doc Sarvis in "The Monkey Wrench Gang" "Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world". John Muir "Reality has a well-known liberal bias." Stephen Colbert
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