Category Archives: Brain Health

Knowledge and wisdom about brain health gained from providing long term caregiving, long distance journeying and neuroscience.

Day 106-107 – 9/7-8/11 Crested Butte to Goodwin Green Cabin

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(Pictures to be added later) Distance = 23 Miles; People Met = 15 Two things about these two days:  we keep meeting people even in remote places and we seemed to keep going uphill as we approached the Continental Divide. … Continue reading

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Day 105 – 9/6/11 Crested Butte Rest Day

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So what happens on a rest day?  For me it’s mainly what you see here, posting on the Internet.  A rest day also means planning ahead for some future leg of the journey, and acquiring and packing the food for … Continue reading

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Day 104 – 9/5/11 Emerald Lake to Crested Butte

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Distance = 16 Miles; People Met = 19 Continuing on with this Labor Day weekend, we once again encountered many fine people, but the day started out with a little show.  We were camped in the morning on a little … Continue reading

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Day 100 – 9/1/11 West Muddy Guard Station to McClure CG

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Distance = 15 Miles; People Met = 4 All the people we met were at the campground where we stayed at the end of the day; more on them in a bit.  The past few posts have been pictures I’ve … Continue reading

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Day 098 – 8/30/11 Green Mountain Trail to Fairmont Park Reservoir

Distance = 16 Miles; People Met = 3 If I was to be a hunter I would like to be a bow hunter. We met three friendly bow hunters from Texas. Here are slides from day 098. If you get … Continue reading

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Day 094 – 8/26/11 Kannah Creek Road to Upper Kannah Creek

Distance = 16 Miles; People Met = 0 This was our first day hiking out of the desert and into the mountains.  How did we feel about this?  See for yourself.

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Day 093 – 8/25/11 Grand Junction to Kannah Creek Road

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Distance = 13 Miles; People Met = 9 I failed to mention that we were covered by both print and television media from Grand Junction.  The television station was KKCO Channel 11, and NBC affiliate.  Heather did all purpose duty … Continue reading

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Day 087 – 8/19/11 Cisco Desert to Colorado Border

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Distance = 19.5 Miles; People Met = 0 Our last day in Utah is cause for tying up a few things, particularly since we did not meet anyone in this isolated part of the state. I wore the same New … Continue reading

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Day 080-84 8/12-16/11 Moab Area (long)

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Distance = 25 Miles; People Met = 23 We spent 5 days in the Moab area.  Two were rest days while we hiked only half days the other days.  There were four major objectives to accomplish in Moab:  1) Catching … Continue reading

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Days 074-77 – 8/6-9/11 Giles Townsite to Green River (long)

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Distance = 65 Miles; People Met = 14 OK, this will probably be one of our biggest “downer” posts.  While traversing National Forests and Parks we were greeted with daily rain and thunderstorms.  Now that we are road walking through … Continue reading

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