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Click on any and all of the below images to go to a WV report from 2016.
Two of my reports were published in the Arizona Daily Sun during 2016, including:
A Second Ribbon Oasis - Hidden Upper Ribbon Falls (from the Cottonwood Rehabilitation Cruise Report) .. Enjoy.
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Here is a sampling of my favorite 2016 videos. You will find more in the above trip reports. Enjoy!
Hi, Rob here. Happy New Year 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 relished in spectacular adventures in 2016. 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. Of course, not all hikes and adventures are summarized in the WV reports. Many photos from day hikes appeared on the False Bravado (https://www.facebook.com/robazpsych). Other trips, such as a traditional camping-day hiking excursion to the North Rim of The Canyon, the ABC (Arizona Backpacking Club) weekend retreat, etc. were not posted. Yet, these adventures were enjoyed all the same. I enjoyed two longer hikes this year, 200 miles on the AZT (Arizona Trail) and another spectacular section hike on the PCT (Pacific Crest Trail; 260 miles). These adventures helped push my total yearly mileage on foot over 1600. Yowee. Until late in the year, my total was comprised of more backpack miles than day hike miles. Now, this is wandering without being lost, paraphrasing a poem by J.R.R. Tokien (Lord of The Rings). Humm, is this also a reference to recovery after the impeachment and imprisonment of the trumpmaniac and his wealthy elite ilk, cutting through the factless lies of repulsicans? Make it so. All that is gold does not glitter,
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
Poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring. It appears in Chapter Ten, "Strider", in Gandalf's letter to Frodo. .
 A data sketch from 2016 includes:
Hiking - total miles = 1602.8
(ERM* = 2338.3)
of which Backpacking = 761.4 miles (ERM* = 1184.9)
and Day Hiking = 841.4 miles (ERM* = 1153.4)
Bicycling - total miles = 545.3 (all day tours in 2016) *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., & Susan N. 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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