Sometimes people need vacations. We dream of relaxing and taking time off, and usually that happens unless you are like me. I'm exhausted now, and need a second vacation! Whew!
I was just following FDR's advice from his "fireside chat" from Many Glacier,Mt in 1934, which was to get out and visit the park, Glacier National park in Montana. If he, who was wheelchair bound could do that, well then, so could I.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14733
Sometimes there are places that we dream about visiting. The places I dream about just happen to involve some effort to get to and well, I must say that I am very pleased with the way my spinal surgeries turned out. On one of my hikes, I ended up at a place called "Iceberg lake" which was approx 10 miles roundtrip with a 2100ft elevation gain and loss. I carried approx 40 lbs in a backpack, and didn’t have any back issues at all. The knees are another story. Sometimes you have to push past the pain. Its something I learned as a scoliosis survivor.
After driving through a few states, I ended up at Mt Hood in Oregon for some summer skiing but didn’t ski due to the re-paving of their parking lot. Oh well, no worries. That will happen another day... Upon camping the Cascade range I ended up near Mt Bachelor and ran into a scoli in the woods of all places. She is retired and is hosting at a historical site for the summer. We talked for hours, and she was amazed at how far scoliosis surgery has come through the years, and in how I was doing all these things after being fused. Things like skiing, motorcycling, hiking, lifting 75 lb rocks to complete a fireplace ring, carrying large tree limbs through the woods etc. She will post after the summer is over as there is no internet in the mountains..... just lions, tigers and bears, oh my!
Its good to be back.
Here are a few pics.
Ed
I was just following FDR's advice from his "fireside chat" from Many Glacier,Mt in 1934, which was to get out and visit the park, Glacier National park in Montana. If he, who was wheelchair bound could do that, well then, so could I.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14733
Sometimes there are places that we dream about visiting. The places I dream about just happen to involve some effort to get to and well, I must say that I am very pleased with the way my spinal surgeries turned out. On one of my hikes, I ended up at a place called "Iceberg lake" which was approx 10 miles roundtrip with a 2100ft elevation gain and loss. I carried approx 40 lbs in a backpack, and didn’t have any back issues at all. The knees are another story. Sometimes you have to push past the pain. Its something I learned as a scoliosis survivor.
After driving through a few states, I ended up at Mt Hood in Oregon for some summer skiing but didn’t ski due to the re-paving of their parking lot. Oh well, no worries. That will happen another day... Upon camping the Cascade range I ended up near Mt Bachelor and ran into a scoli in the woods of all places. She is retired and is hosting at a historical site for the summer. We talked for hours, and she was amazed at how far scoliosis surgery has come through the years, and in how I was doing all these things after being fused. Things like skiing, motorcycling, hiking, lifting 75 lb rocks to complete a fireplace ring, carrying large tree limbs through the woods etc. She will post after the summer is over as there is no internet in the mountains..... just lions, tigers and bears, oh my!
Its good to be back.
Here are a few pics.
Ed
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