Lazarow World-Hike-About

Editor flapping wings in anticipation Hang-over at Observation Point, Zion. A contribution by Jeff: Here we sit, my bride and me, on the top of another mountain. What do you achieve with this mountain climbing nonsense, people ask. Sometimes we ask that of ourselves. We don’t always know the answers but we do remember the famous quote of why people scale mountains: ‘Because they are there’. We too like this answer—it saves us having to think too much about providing our own. Besides, we have a lot to think about instead of dealing with dumb questions—especially those for which we don’t have answers. Blocking a great view View from Peak Before we even attempt to answer a question of this nature, it is best to first state why we are bothering to write this… well, you fill in the blank…we didn’t like the description ‘blog’—it doesn’t sound that appetizing. Today, we have the internet. This magnificent innovation—we remember Al Gore in our daily prayers—allows for the democratizati...

I must admit, it was a very unsettling feeling driving away from our high-rise apartment for the last time. Homeless and 'on the road' and heading for Utah. When we first told our 3 kids of our plans, we had 3 very different reactions. Gavin said "sounds like fun, but at the end of the day, I cannot imagine not sleeping in my own bed". That counts him out! Natalie got a little teary - her family support and babysitting pulled out from under her. However, she came through in the end with her blessings. Robbie, who is currently traipsing around South Africa, told us that he and his friends think "we are just too cool for words". And so...here we are, in a hotel in a small town called Hurricane, just South of Zion National Park. Over the past 2 years we have done a lot of hikes in parts of the country. We had decided to make a point of not visiting the same place twice or doing the same hikes as we have done before. Needless to say, the is our third trip to Zio...