Bulldog - Sounds like our hiking styles are very similar, esp. the downhill part. Richard P. had a hand in helping me learn to pace myself also back a few years ago.

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If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)