by Hikin_Jim » Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:01 pm
Well, yes and no. She will go hiking, but, as she so eloquently put it, "I cannot go hiking like you go hiking."
In other words, she's cool with some easy to moderate day hikes, but she's generally not up for hard all day hikes or overnighters. She's let me know that running water (apparently creeks don't satisfy this requirement for some reason) and flush toilets are not optional.
We stayed up in Forest Falls this past weekend and had a blast doing day hikes to Johns Meadow on Saturday and Aspen Grove on Sunday.
Michiko's actually a trooper. We went to Capitol Reef Nat'l Park in Utah for Memorial Day, and she did quite a hike going cross country down a canyon with a lot of narrows, falls, and fords. She did great (although she was pretty beat afterwards).