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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Nice pics.

Used to be I’d see pics like that and fondly remember my own times traipsing through the wilds.

Now? All I see are ticks stuck to my legs and foxtails stuck to my socks.

Being old sucks.


7 posted on 09/21/2017 2:09:37 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Grimmy

There’s old and there’s old. I’m 66 and retired three months ago. Getting to do a LOT more of what I like now and hopefully can keep this up another 10, maybe 15 years. My wife is even better at hiking than me. She is doing 9 milers on weekends with her girlfriends with 800 feet elevation gain.

We did a 9 miler in Rocky Mountain National Park a couple weeks ago at 8,200 to 8,900 feet — that was tough having just gotten off the plane from the California coast! Followed it up a day later with a 5 miler at 9,200 feet west of Colorado Springs to Rampart Reservoir.


14 posted on 09/21/2017 2:41:45 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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