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, October 31, 2015

24.13 Arches National Park, Utah. Various poses of Delicate Arch.



We visited Arches National Park enroute to Colorado, again. This time we assembled pictures from positions
not usually viewed. Of course, this is an opinion as it seems the full frontal from slightly right of the icon is
the photograph of choice. After hiking on the snow-capped mountains and in heavy snow, too of Colorado and New Mexico,
the semi-desert conditions of Utah together with Delicate Arch make for a contrast. It's certainly easier on the muscles.
Isn't it one of life's ironies or our funny minds but when it's very hot, we long for the cold and of course, vice-versa.



This is an unusual position across the canyon, behind Delicate Arch.






Taken from in the bowl below the arch.





The more formal view of the Arch framing my favorite. (Through the arch one can see the La Salle Mountains.)





Our favorite position at the arch; a place of tranquility and brunch.





Unfortunately, this is a painful situation as the editor panics after finding herself in 'no woman's land'.
Although the picture does not capture the depth, there is quite a fall-off. It's a strange phenomenon but the longer
one remains in a position like the one portrayed, the more one is inclined to feel like falling forward. Odd!






This might be known as the 'delicate leap'. Don't worry, dear editor, 'supercrock' to the rescue.





Side view of the not so Delicate Arch.





Looking down sharply.





Looking up from behind and slightly below the icon with the sun shining 'full-on'.






Side view from a little forward and slightly below surface.





Across the canyon in a less-well-known position behind and to the side. One hikes through a canyon followed
by rock scrambling to reach the position.





Cheers,

Jenni and Jeffrey

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