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Colorado man, 91, becomes oldest to cross Grand Canyon following 5-day hike
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| 3.24.2023
| Chris Oberholtz
Posted on 03/25/2023 8:01:30 AM PDT by libh8er
Edited on 03/25/2023 1:19:15 PM PDT by Chris Robinson.
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posted on
03/25/2023 8:01:30 AM PDT
by
libh8er
To: libh8er
If he collapses at the bottom who pays for the Med-A-Vac?
Like the 74-year old who proudly went out and got her degree. What’s next medical school? Who subsidized it?
To: libh8er
WOW. Age is just a number in his case
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posted on
03/25/2023 8:08:37 AM PDT
by
Sunsong
To: libh8er
That Canyon hike ain’t no walk in the park! :^)
I did it with a 40lb pack. Took me hours to get up the Bright Angel from Indian Gardens.
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posted on
03/25/2023 8:12:42 AM PDT
by
eyedigress
(Trump is my President!)
To: Sunsong
I’m be always had the crazy idea if I trained for 6 months I would like to try hiking the Appalachian trail, approximately 2200 miles from North Georgia to Maine, I would be in my mid-60s
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posted on
03/25/2023 8:15:59 AM PDT
by
srmanuel
To: libh8er
How do you get across the river?
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posted on
03/25/2023 8:16:18 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
To: DIRTYSECRET
There wasn’t a medevac. He made it
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posted on
03/25/2023 8:16:40 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
To: DIRTYSECRET
Thanks for adding cheer to thus inspirational story.
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posted on
03/25/2023 8:17:31 AM PDT
by
samiam5
To: DesertRhino
There are bridges at the bottom.
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posted on
03/25/2023 8:21:31 AM PDT
by
Bon of Babble
(What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
To: libh8er
With similar training Mr. MERCAT (age 80) could do that too.
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posted on
03/25/2023 8:25:58 AM PDT
by
Mercat
To: libh8er
We went to visit our daughter and her fiancé in Oregon last September. They took us to Smith Rock State Park near Redmond, I guess. We encountered many older-than-us folks in pretty good shape on that hike. It gave me encouragement to keep up the daily walking. On my bucket list is to take my dear Mr. FF to the Grand Canyon. He’s only seen it from an airplane.
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posted on
03/25/2023 8:27:15 AM PDT
by
FamiliarFace
(I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
To: eyedigress
Lol. What is the altitude change? 2Kfeet? And going down into the canyon is really not easier. It can be really hard on the knees.
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posted on
03/25/2023 8:30:30 AM PDT
by
dhs12345
To: srmanuel
2,200 miles! WOW. That’s a wonderful aspiration.
I bet it would be gorgeous.
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posted on
03/25/2023 8:33:09 AM PDT
by
Sunsong
To: libh8er
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posted on
03/25/2023 8:39:14 AM PDT
by
HighSierra5
(The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
To: DesertRhino
He swam. Just to prove he was a man. Alabama.
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posted on
03/25/2023 8:41:38 AM PDT
by
HighSierra5
(The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
To: DIRTYSECRET
Well-deserved congrats to John Jepkema!
I'm all for encouraging and recognizing the feat.
A few weeks back, I happened to be at the Bright Angel trailhead. It was clearly iced over in places, muddy in others. Lacking crampons, I stayed on the rim trail.
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posted on
03/25/2023 8:42:10 AM PDT
by
Seaplaner
(Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
To: dhs12345
To: libh8er
When you get up in your senior years, even when you are in fairly good shape, the balance and occasional disorientation become the big OH-OH moments.
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posted on
03/25/2023 8:47:30 AM PDT
by
KC Burke
(Diversity, Inclusion and Equity is not another way to spell GOD but it is a way to spell DIE.)
To: Sunsong
If I trained properly I wouldn’t mind sleeping outdoors for much of that time my biggest fear would be my body failing me with a an injury or getting really sick simply getting tired and being miserable occasionally wouldn’t get me to quit and could my body get fit enough to complete the hike
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posted on
03/25/2023 8:58:27 AM PDT
by
srmanuel
To: libh8er
91 years old that’s very impressive. Almost hard to believe.
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posted on
03/25/2023 9:25:55 AM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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