Sometimes your favorite passion has to make you hate it just a little bit. As in when you are scaling a ravine in three feet of snow, post holing like crazy. Your waterproof hiking boots are soaked and your feet are wrinkled and cold and disgusting from being wet for so many hours. Its hour …
For two days I have been walking like an old cowboy who just got off his horse. No I have not spent days in the saddle. Two days ago I came close to summiting San Bernardino Peak and my calves, butt and yes, even my shoulders are still feeling the burn. ( No, I …
The path up the mountain side was steep. My calves were burning already and the hike had just begun a mile ago. A mile ago at the beginning of the hike I remember thinking how easy the start of this hike is. You cross a babbling creek or raging river depending on what season it is. The …