Another hike in the wilderness today 
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Hiked up a canyon that houses one of the best year around running springs
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Where’s that at?
I’m up in NW. AZ. These pics are the Hualapai Mtns.
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I miss living out in the middle of nowhere. I need to make more time to start hiking again. Being in the middle of the city all the time is depressing.
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I love your photos of your hikes, and appreciate you posting them here still.
It kinda reminds me some of my hiking when i was a kid at Philmont Scout ranch there in cimmeron NM.
quite an experience.
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Top branch on the left side of that dead tree a Redtail Hawk was keeping an eye on me. Hiked another canyon Wednesday that branches off the from the previous pics I posted
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Growing up in places that looked like this, then moving to the beach as a kid was horrible. Part of the reason I liked moving into SC so much is that there will hills that were bigger than the an overpass. I hated living somewhere so flat and boring.
Great views though, more than a little jealous.
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On vacation at St. Simons Island in Georgia. I am not much of a beach guy, I always prefer going to the mountains. My wife was excited about going and there is a lot of history on St. Simons Island so I was willing to check it out. Since my Dad passed away two years ago we always take my Mom with us on vacation. We all climbed to the top of the lighthouse with 129 steps. Mom just turned 76 and is scared of heights. She held my hand and she made it to the top of the lighthouse and back down. I was happy and proud that she trusted me to make sure that she was safe and wouldn’t get hurt.
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thats beautiful pics of the lighthouse… im surprised your mom made it up and down the lighthouse. on my honeymoon the wife and i were in florida, and we went to a lighthouse near daytona beach called Ponce De Leyon. the wife wnated to go up, and im terrified of heights… so i figure i’ll try… i got half way up and freaked out. total panic attack/anxiety attack. so i sat down in the big window sill that was like 3 feet wide before it got to the window, almost like i was in the wall far from the edge of the stairs, and waited for her to come back down after going all the way up… i just couldnt do it… yea, im that much a wuss, i vaporlocked going up a lighthouse steps. sad… but its me… just cant do it.
your photos are beautiful, and im glad your family had a great time…
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For some reason I inspire confidence in people that know me. I guess they just trust me to keep them safe. My wife and I have been together for over 30 years. She knows that in my younger days I was an adrenaline junkie. My stupidly was that I didn’t have enough common sense at the time to be scared or respectful of the things that I should have been. Being 10 ft tall and bulletproof is all good and fine until you have two close friends die in a car wreck. They were driving too fast and wrapped the car around an oak tree. That wreck changed my perspective at a young age. I was still an adrenaline junkie but I paid a lot more attention to the details and the safety aspects. My wife has been with me on an extreme zip line on the island of St. Martin. These zip lines were in the tops of the trees on the side of a mountain. You eventually made your way to the top of the mountain and then zip lined from one mountain across the valley below to the mountain on the other side of the valley. She has been scuba diving with me in the ocean. We took hang gliding lessons together and did some practice flights at Kitty Hawk, NC. We have done many off-shore fishing trips in very rough seas and she has been a trooper through all of it. Riding UTV’s and camping off the established trails back in the wilderness of the mountains in Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. We both went to the BMW Preformance Driving school in Greer, SC. That wasn’t as much of a challenge to me as it was to my wife. I guess high speed driving courses that you get in LE really helped me out. I haven’t had a chance to take her rappelling yet but she says that she is game for it as long as my brother and I are there to walk her through it. One of us clip her in and the other would be on the rope at the bottom belaying her if she got to fast. We have done other things together but I have gone on long enough. In the pics below those aren’t bushes below us it is the tops of full grown trees below us. My wife is in the turquoise shirt and the guy in the orange shirt worked there and was our guide through the course. He was a fun guy to do the zip lines with as he was always cutting up with me… She has drawn the line at skydiving. She simply says that she can’t see jumping out of a perfectly good plane. My response was that when you see some of the planes that you go up in it is a relief once you jump out of it.
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Thanks for sharing that, enjoy it while you are both young, never thought we’d grow old, but here we are and doing a lot of things we enjoyed when we were younger, we’ll not so much anymore. It Hurts!
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while i bet that was fun to do, there is no way you’d of cought me up there doing it. im way too much a wuss when it comes to being afraid of heights.
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I have an old shoulder injury from the military. Arthritis has set in and the rotator cuff is torn. I have been grinning and bearing it but I know what you mean. I can’t do many of the things that I used to do or not for near as long. I went skiing and knee boarding a little while back and the next morning I felt like someone had beat me from head to toes. I do still try to do everything that I used to do but I know my limitations. You are only young once and I will try to hang on to as much of it as I can for as long as I can.
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Steve I really think that I could get you up there. My wife was scared of heights but she trusts me completely. I promised her that I would be right there and double checking everything that she did. Once I explained the process and that she couldn’t fall as long as she followed our instructions she calmed down. The guide was also awesome because he kept a close eye on her also. Once she got over her initial fear she really started enjoying herself as you can see in the pics. When we got done off the extreme zip line there were some college kids going on the baby zip line. My wife looked at them and busted out laughing. She punched me in my side with her elbow and shook her head. I have videos of us hanging gliding but I don’t think that I could post them without going through YouTube.
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nah, i wouldnt go. its not so much the fall, as the immediate stopping that scares me. but seriously, i wouldnt go up if you wre the pope, the president or even the head of the mafia. i am terrified of heights. and I would not go up. at all. Just looking up at the tree i’d probably have an anxiety attack. i am almost having one thinking of it now. .hell i get them when i play video games where there is a large jump and falls and the like. nothing logical about it, but it happens.
It wouldnt be about trusting you or anyone else. its just my own mind issues.
thats awesome she adapted to it so well though, and i bet the videos are great.
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I live on St Simons and I’ve frequented that lighthouse with my kids! There’s no better view than from that lighthouse and from the pier.
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