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.
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.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

10.27 Mesa Arch and journey to Blanding, UT


Looking from Mesa Arch into the canyon, a personal favorite—it 'don't' get better, pardner

After the challenging Gooseberry hike, we set off to cross the Mesa Arch. We found this bridge about three years before—we liked it. This time our editor, who hung back on the last occasion, took it in her stride. On the one side, the fall is twenty feet onto hard rock. However, on the other side of the arch, the drop is a little more, a further 1,500 feet to the canyon floor. By that time, whether the floor is hard rock or soft sand, it is academic to one’s health.


My angel crosses Mesa Arch, a bridge to nowhwere but personal growth


A view through the arch

The view from the bridge into the canyon is spectacular. The photographs, we think, attest to this.


The La Salle Mountain Range


Sunset on Highway 191

We left Canyonlands for Blanding after spending four nights in Moab. This park is about thirty-five miles from Moab which in turn is five miles from Arches. Unfortunately, the time arrived to leave Utah, a man and his wife. However, a little part of us remains in this great state as well as our other nine wives. The drive to Blanding and then towards Four Corners, entering Arizona and on towards Page is another treat—it’s as though a person has not left a beautiful national park.


The La Salle Mountain Range, a another reason to return

Won't say what he was doing immediately before this position. Farewell to Canyonlands (the small part we visited), a spectacular place


One more peek before hitting the road at a place of rugged beauty, form and color


Cheers,

Jenni and Jeffrey

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