Lazarow World-Hike-About: 9.52 Mono Pass above Ruby Lake, onto Summit Lake and beyond

LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT

San Ramon: At first, I thought it needed explanation. Not true. Top Left: "You're kidding me. After hiking 4 miles from the base below, you still want to climb up there...and snakes...?" The stance revealed it all. The rest is self-explanatory, too. (Not part of the formal trail either).

'LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT: WHAT IN THE WORLD IS HIKE-ABOUT?'

Hike-about is an adventure that commenced June 2010. After storing our household movables, ridding ourselves of a house but retaining our 'home' together, we set off with the purpose of hiking in different parts of the world, not forgetting the home country, the USA.

Our primary focus is hiking to mountain peaks but any challenging hike will do just fine. Extended stays enable us to enjoy and experience living in various places amongst differing cultures. Hike-about has evolved into a way of life. It's also a process of discovery, both the world and ourselves.

We work and live 'on the road' but return to the city in which our grandchildren reside, every couple of months. This provides us the wonderful opportunity to be with them as well as a child or two, even three and of course, friends.

By the end of 2023, the blog contained over 1,560 hikes (less than that actually undertaken), each a set of pictures with stories and anecdotes from the trails. An index to the right allows the viewer to identify earlier experiences.

Finally, we are often asked about the journey's end. Our reply, as accurate as we can state, is: "When we are either forced to cease through health issues or the enjoyment level no longer reaches our aspirations, we will hang up the boots."

"A Life Experience As No Other: Dare to Seize the Day Together", published by Fulton Books, depicts our life on the road and mountains until the beginning of 2017. It has developed 'exponentially' since then.

Jenni and Jeffrey Lazarow

Whereas we continue to update the blog regularly, we circulate email notifications infrequently.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

9.52 Mono Pass above Ruby Lake, onto Summit Lake and beyond

We moved from Mammoth on Friday with reluctance, heading towards Bishop for the Sabbath, not before completing the hike covered in the missive, Mammoth Mountain. We needed the rest by Saturday, which we suppose, is an understatement. Today, Sunday, we completed our sixth hike in seven days, accumulating close to 55 miles on rough terrain, in total. Our editor sure sets a blistering pace. In fact, in these last two hikes, which we prefer to call experiences; they were superb beyond belief. Fortunately, we seemed to have more energy than at any time before. There may be something in the ‘fiction’: The best is yet to occur. We doubt it but it’s a nice philosophy, we think, to pursue.

We are so overwhelmed by the joy and elation of today’s 11 miles and 2,800 feet accumulative elevation gain, reaching over 12,600 feet in an amazing place, that words fail us. With that in mind and a need to look for some more words, we will let the blog be ‘pictures without words’. Frankly, in the end, we had no idea which photographs to choose; we have more than two hundred. One wonders how we completed the hike.

The previous missive, which took place after this one, if you will excuse the planned mix-up, brings Hike-about 9 to an end. Almost 3 months have passed, leaving us the challenge to find our 'feet' in San Diego.

We would like to express, as always, with great appreciation our thanks to those friends who made a special effort to offer comments, twists and advice as well as a feeling of love that rode on their words. We hope that's not sloppy but we felt it.

We look forward to seeing you on Hike-about 10 (N'H)

Cheers,

Jenni and Jeffrey

It's advisable to click on a photograph for enlargements. There are few captions as the pictures tell their own story.