Hiking

Since last fall, Niki and I have been avid hikers. We started out smaller trails, some paved ones even at Powder Valley. Since then we've been looking for longer and longer trails. Highly recommend everyone own a CamelBak. Get only a CamelBak brand as the others just are not made the way a CamelBak is. Just this summer I finally got a pair of shoes better designed to do some hiking and I must say that is also a huge help. Some of our favorite spots are Rockwoods, Cuivre River, Young Preserve, and of course the family ranch. It really helps me to forget that I spend so much time in the city with its terrible smells and pollution and commotion. Crisp air, the smell of leaves, life and death, all extremely important to my peace of mind of late. We really try to get out about every weekend at this point, if we don't have anything else going on. I figure for that 1/7 of the week I'm actually getting to enjoy the things in life that living the other 6/7 of it is helping to destroy. It seems very difficult to just leave behind the parts of my life that I know, and I think many people do, are really unsustainable and destructive for ourselves and the rest of the world. What do I have to give up, what haven't I that I could? Is it really fair for me to have an XBOX when there are entire countries that probably have only a handful? Because I was born here...could have been anywhere else, but it was here. I guess I would be happy about that if I didn't know that having the things I have and living the way I do hurts someone else. Hard to deal with sometimes and somedays...

Monday,
Back to Work.