taken to secluded cabin inCanada, the guide
pointed out bear scat and told me to not go
far from cabin. Later that nite a racket awakened
me ,,,I thought a wild animal was ripping the roof
off. In morning I realized the cabin was located in grove of oak trees that had in the heavy night winds had shaken off thier burden of Acorns onto the tin roof ,,,ooopps

Not so much a question as a musing; "Hey, maybe Trump will change once he's been in office awhile."

There have been so many.....it is my one talent in life. I also suffer from foot in mouth disease?

Do u love me ?

The only idiotic questions are the ones that don’t end with a question mark.

Not a question but that strange moment when you are stationary in traffic and the vehicles around you move forward and you think you are going backwards! Or is that just me??

Speaking of idiotic questions, yesterday I received a message from a 39-year-old man in Brampton, Ontario, 2,467 miles away.

"What are your favorite trails?" he asked. My reply:

"I doubt you would recognize the trail names, except maybe the first.

"Pacific Crest Trail above Stevens Pass; Minotaur Lake, Theseus Lake and Labyrinth Mountain; Mt. McCausland, Lake Colchuck; Ingalls Creek; Tronsen Ridge; Ski Hill; Mission Ridge Ski Area, Clara and Marion Lakes; trails above Squilchuck State Park; Rock Mountain; Sauer's Mountain, Pipeline Trail; Fourth of July Trail, Glacier View Trail; Nason Ridge High Alpine Lookout; Olympic National Park; Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area; Wind River Range, etc. Too many to list. Kathleen"

I was at a meeting where I asked someone what their name was and we were all wearing name tags.

Well this isn't a question but was a major blond moment. Yesterday I was driving down a winding hill on my way to work. I couldn't figure out why my windshield defroster wasn't working. Finally realized it was just foggy out.

I know I've asked a lot of dumb questions over the years but nothing is coming to mind at the moment

Apropos of nothing with all this talk about hiking, I'm curious if you use a FitBit or similar device at all. Mine was instrumental (ha) in getting me to a goal of 10,000 steps per day. They tend to get you competing against yourself. I find that my model (the Charge HR) is pretty spot-on with the heart rate monitors on gym equipment also.

They also track "flights of stairs" (roughly, near as I can tell, the # of times you've gone up in elevation about 10 feet) which would probably be interesting to a mountain hiker.

Every once in awhile they email me a "badge" such as the Italy Badge, indicating that I've walked the equivalent of the length of that country since I started tracking. You get little showers of confetti on their dashboard when you exceed a target # of minutes per day of "fat burning" exertion, etc. Silly, but it is motivating.

The first "journalistic" interview I ever conducted, for a local newspaper which had invited pupils from local schools to write articles on people making a positive difference in our community... "How much can a nature reserve voluntary warden expect to be paid?"

In a new land, it’s too easy.. A couple years ago I asked my neighbor if ‘Those are agates’ on the hillside..? “Them rocks?” he responded. Here on the Blue Ridge, once under the weight of ‘Himalaya sized mountains,’ there’s Quartz galore!

‘Them rocks’ (I of course hiked up to check out) were 4 foot lengths of visible ‘milk quartz.’ I’ve seen them the size of VW Bugs! The soil here sparkles with their powdered dust! ..thus ‘new age’ crazies congregate, too..

The rest of my ‘dumb questions’ center around trees, or politics, directions, or weather, or insects, sometimes birds.. even words

How much wood could a woodchuck Chuck?

will you marry me?