Bell and I met some friends out at our favorite stomping ground for an eight mile hike from Sunset trailhead to Crab Eyes to Echo Pass up the south side of Elk Mountain to Apple & Pear and then Down Elk Mountain trail.
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It would be hard not to notice that I got a puppy. Her name is Bell. But she's not just any puppy, she's a puppy who loves the Wichita Mountains like I do. She's an adventure puppy. I am a proud dog mom.
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I took my new puppy Bell on her first hike today. We went up the Elk Mountain trail and wandered down to Apple and Pear and back around through the Valley of the Boulders.
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The Big Hairy Crack. I won't tell you where it is in the Wichita Mountains, but maybe I'll take you there someday. Maybe not.
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Four of us went on a Sunday hike in the blistering cold. We chose an area that tends to be a little warmer than the surroundings. I had one scary descent that got my heart racing. De made it look so easy.
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On this particular day, five dogs pulled nine humans through Spanish Canyon just as we pulled them.
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A group of is went out to Spanish Canyon with Hank and Dot, De Cooper's German Shorthair Pointers.
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The Jan One hike has become a tradition for me. This was my third year in a row. My friends Britney and Jessica joined me on a cold morning. I think it was 7ºF when we woke up that day.
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My best black & white shots of 2017.
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Angie LaPaglia and I got away from wrapping presents for a while and explored some new places around Spanish Canyon on Christmas Eve Eve.
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I was feeling under the weather Saturday and didn’t want to make any of my dirtbag friends deal with my snotty nose, so I drove down for a five-hour hike on an overcast day.
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A long 7.5 mile hike to Mount Mitchell Massif with Angie. We ran into the legendary rock climber Tony Mayse along the way. If you want to learn rock climbing from an expert go to guideforaday.com.
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I said it then and I’ll say it now, “Crapshoot is the funnest way down Elk Mountain.”
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Day Two of De Cooper and I scouting Crapshoot.
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De Cooper and I started a long overdue scout of an area we call Crapshoot. For the last two years, De has had this idea of combining this tough hike with another tough hike we call The Chavez.
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I lead a hike to Spanish Canyon on Sunday. I turned right when I should have turned left. What a great mistake that turned out to be.
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I went on a great hike to Granite Mountain in my beloved Wichita Mountains with Angie LaPaglia, Paulina Ćwik, Britney Neubecker, and De Cooper. It’s a longer trek than some with a lot of small spaces to crawl through. At some point the term “Women of Rock” came to mind as I had this amazing adventure with three tough women.
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My friend, the proliferant John Reenan, asked me the weekend before if I had ever explored or ascended the northwest part of Elk Mountain. I realized I never had. I was freed up this past Sunday morning so I decided to take a solo hike there so I could tell John that I had indeed explored that area.
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My girlfriend Angie had a friend in from London who had seen our pictures and wanted to check out the Wichita Mountains for herself. We decided to take her on one of the toughest hikes in the refuge. We call it “The Chavez.”
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I hiked with my friend JB on September 9, 2017 to Mount Lincoln. I finally found the spot I have been looking for. JB alley-ooped his pack into 50 foot crevasse. That spawned a return hike a few hours later in a rescue attempt.
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