LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT

South Africa: Devil's Peak: A bird's eye view of a section of Cape Town.

'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.
O
ur 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.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

8.141 Supplement to Blog 8.14, which follows

When we experience something that is beyond our wildest expectations, it behooves us to share with those for whom we care. Besides Monday’s hike, we have appended a few photographs from our Mauna Kea climb. When we hiked Mauna Loa last week, the nature of that massive volume of rock precluded obtaining perspective and views of the mountain/volcano itself. Blog 8.11 below provided pictures from Loa of Mauna Kea; today we reversed the process. We intend to publish more photographs and a formal blog next week.

In the meantime, we gained 3,300 feet, reaching an altitude of about 12,500 feet, over 3.5 miles (7 miles return) but did not attempt to reach the summit, in one of our steepest climbs ever. We were not intending to climb that high and are now disappointed for not completing it. Why we did not prepare for a full hike, eludes us. Nevertheless, besides viewing our favorite sight—heavy, thick, white clouds, not forgetting the overwhelming Mauna Loa—the experience included an unexplainable spiritual element. Should we be forced to ‘hang-up’ our hiking boots, G-d forbid, we would select this hike as a finale.

(Clicking photo enlarges all)
Head above the clouds although it felt like 'in' the clouds all day. Mountain peeps through

Jen heads toward the mountain and clouds

Jen going up and over another cone

Sloping into the clouds

Mauna Loa is massive. Standing before it, we were overwhelmed, humbled and privileged

Deep mist kept coming and going

Feeling the strain of a very steep hike, an incredible experience

Peak of Mauna Loa peeking through clouds from Mauna Kea, the White Mountain

Cheers,

Jenni and Jeffrey

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