Maggie's Farm

Bulldog and I are planning a bouldering day for the near future. Well, full-day rough hiking with enough challenging bouldering and rock scrambling to keep everybody on our local hiking team happy, challenged,  and entertained.

Friends and family.  No ropes required but a positive, can-do attitude is required. I am planning the routes and want to make it as fatiguing and stressful as possible.

To keep the wives happy, we'll throw in a brunch at Mohonk.  One hour, only, is what we guys will permit because we want to move, not sit and eat oysters, filet, halibut, Kobe beef, Nantucket scallops, fine wines, and a hundred other decadent delights.

Why get in shape if you don't use it to the max?   Rock scrambling is great fun, and sometimes scary and that is what builds character. Or so my Dad said. "Face all of your fears. That's how you become a man."  Like his beloved Shakespeare, he viewed fearfulness as a kind of death.

He was in two wars but he never spoke of it. Never once. US Army.