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ANNOUNCEMENT:
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Photo/essay explaining what I do to keep moving as I’m now into my 80th year (check the words..I didn’t say I’m 80…yet). It will reveal all my secrets in a writing I’m entitling:
THE ANTI-AGING CHALLENGE:
A Fun Filled, Humorous, Tough but Wonderful Journey
A Fun Filled, Humorous, Tough but Wonderful Journey
NOTE: If I even accomplish only half of what my challenge for this season is…300 miles of backpacking in the Uintas.…It will pretty well confirm that I’m doing something right….so you can take seriously what I do….and remember:
Further note: I have posted over the weekend the NEW…
……2015 GEAR/SUPPLEMENTS section
It includes new REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES IN MY LIGHTWEIGHT BACKPACKING STUFF!
……2015 GEAR/SUPPLEMENTS section
It includes new REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES IN MY LIGHTWEIGHT BACKPACKING STUFF!
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WEIRD OLD HOMELESS GUY or ECCENTRIC MILLIONAIRE?
A young boy jumped out of a car and gave me something….he didn’t give me time to say I wasn’t homeless. Then, just yesterday, May 2nd a nice fellow stopped and offered me a ride….I guess I don’t look as good as I think I do! I thanked him and lied saying,
“I’m an eccentric millionaire out getting my exercise with 40 pounds on my back!”
The only thing for sure is that I’m having a ball working out now twice a day to get ready for my Olympics–300 miles of backpacking in the High Uintas to get to the last remote areas and then when snow flies go to work putting it all together into ……
….a unique package like no one has ever seen on Utah’s greatest WILDERNESS…THE HIGH UINTAS.
Soon my “mansion” in which I live year round (with 2 years logged…and counting), seen below, will be drug up to Bald Mountain Pass and area, likely by June 4th, to acclimatize myself as in my “golden years” (now in my 80th) high altitude has been a problem for my first few backpacks…..then be ready for my first backpack of 5-7 days in the Grandaddy Basin to photograph and fish in 17 lakes some I haven’t been to in 60 years, a couple of three off-trail lakes never explored, and others I just want to see one more time………
By the way….don’t feel sorry for me–I’M NOT ALONE AS YOU CAN SEE BELOW…
“WILSON” never abandons me, agrees with me in everything, never talks back nor insults me, and doesn’t eat a lot either, so I’ve got the ideal companion!
NOTE: If you’ve been out of touch and don’t know “Wilson,” check out Tom Hank’s great survival movie, CASTAWAY.
Here’s a fisheye view…… not only is it my home all year round, but for me really is a “mansion” compared to the needy Mayans I have been helping as a volunteer for half a century…this also is the World-wide, Interplanetary Office of the GUATEMALA FOUNDATION, 93% of donations going to help the needy…….
….this in stark contrast to a recently publicized well-known billion dollar Foundation that only spends 15% of their income on charitable projects–the founder of which recently justified his activities saying something like, “I’ve got to pay my bills!” Click on the above Guatemalan Foundation link and learn about “the rest of my life’s story” and help a little…or better A LOT! There’s no better place to invest your charitable dollars as you’re assured many will be effectively helped.
Below is an example: Right now we are building for elderly Izabel Cho & her great-grandson a simple home….that will be inaugurated on MOTHER’S DAY.
BACK TO THE UINTAS: After circling the Grandaddies I’ll start pecking away at my list which includes some remote lakes I haven’t ever heard of anyone getting to, including Little Andy Lake, which I’m sure no one has heard of, nor visited– and do just as much as the Lord let’s me do.
Maybe I’d better explain. Once my buddies on KSL Outdoor Radio suggested a lake be named after me….so I named one that the DWR hasn’t even given a number to which is at 12,307 ft. elevation (600+ ft higher than the summit of Mt. Timpanogos) in the eastern shadow of South Kings Peak, above no name lake U-75. Getting to it and photographing it will be one of my objectives this summer as well as other similar lakes.
Between each backpack, I’ll go where I can get internet access like public libraries in the surrounding towns, to report here, re-program my SPOT Tracker, catch up on Guatemalan Foundation business, and then disappear again into the High Uintas and be out of touch, except for SPOT tracks, and to report in each Saturday morning via sat phone to KSL Outdoors Radio.
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JUST OFF THE PRESS
by
Salt Lake Tribune Outdoor Editor
BRETT PRETTYMAN
with a mention or two of our
The High Uintas Wilderness Project
See below a tidbit or two….then go to Barnes & Noble and other suppliers to get your copy spotlighting Utah’s greatest Wilderness
