For a long time now, I thought it would be interesting to
have a place where friends and family could go to read
about and see images from some of the places I've hiked or
backpacked. So here it is. Feel free to be bored if your
interest in this area doesn't match mine. Selecting a
region from the list at the right expands into one or more
hikes done in each. Choosing a hike from the list presented
will take you to journals or trail notes and in some cases,
photographs. Far from being an extreme hiker, I find that
it's not the ruggedness of an outing that counts, but the
quality of the experience. Like most people, the amount of
time each year I'm able to devote to hiking is at a
premium, and as I age, this is becoming increasingly so.
This forces me to chose and plan carefully. Each time I try
to come out alive, and with more than I went in with,
except, of course, broken bones, sunburn, blisters, cuts
and bruises, etc.