Category Archives: Brain Health Information

Information about the benefits of personal experiences such as embracing joy, seeking beauty or loving kindness for enhancing brain health.

Day 067 – 7/30/11 Antimony Creek to Deep Creek

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Distance > 13 Miles; People Met = 2 Another piece of advice that Randy Gould gave us was to go cross country essentially from where we camped by Antimony Creek to rejoin and ATV road on the other side of … Continue reading

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Day 066 – 7/29/31 Antimony to Antimony Creek

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Distance > 13 Miles; People Met = 4 On our first day out of Antimony we suffered from too much information.  If we listened only to Randy, whose ranch is along the route, we would have been fine.  We ran … Continue reading

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Day 064 – 7/27/11 Circleville to Otter Creek SP

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Distance = 19 Miles; People Met = 12 We returned to road walking; my knees thanked me.  It’s a good sign that they recover well from a day of torture.  The scenery did not suffer in the least.  We traveled … Continue reading

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Days 062-63 – 7/25-26/11 Beaver to Circleville

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Distance = 28 Miles; People Met = 2 This stretch took us through the Fishlake National Forest.  We stopped at the Forest Service office in Beaver to get some information and a map before heading on.  We learned two things … Continue reading

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Days 058-60 – 7/21-23/11 Wedding Rest Days

We flew back from Salt Lake City to JFK in order to attend a family wedding.  As much as this hike is about humanity the best people to be with is family.  We caught up with our three kids at … Continue reading

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Day 056 – 7/19/11 Unnamed Summit to Wah Wah Valley

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Distance = 29 Miles; People Met = 1 Hah!  We fooled the southerly winds today.  We started out going south but veered more east.  Meanwhile, the winds were more from the southwest than the south.  We dealt with crosswinds rather … Continue reading

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Day 055 -7/18/11 Evening

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Landscape Memories:  A Poem A weathered corral, wood and wire, Old memories of herds and herders in the wild west Waves of short grass, green and gold, Ancient memories of native hunters and hunting grounds Red rock mesas, in evening … Continue reading

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Day 055 – 7/18/11 Garrison to Unnamed Summit

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Distance = 24 Miles; People Met = 0 Our first full day hiking in Utah might have been the loneliest day of the journey.  Several factors contributed to the haunting loneliness walking along Utah 21.  Bleached bones were scattered everywhere.  … Continue reading

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Day 054 – 7/17/11 Weaver Creek Road to Garrison

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Distance = 16.8 Miles; People Met = 4 We talked to 4 people today on an otherwise lonely road stretch of the ADT.  The first was biker Sebastian from Munich, Germany.  Neither of us saw the other in the distance.  … Continue reading

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Day 053 – 7/16/11 Osceola Road to Weaver Creek Road

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Distance > 14 Miles.  People Met = 0 We’ve been enjoying walking with Barrett as we swap stories and life history.  Barrett confirmed a decision I made as being the correct one.  We took a detour away from the Western … Continue reading

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