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“Be warm. Be kind. Be calming. Nothing can make a person feel healthier than having a healthy mind.”

— juansen dizon

Blue Mesa Reservoir by Joel Colorado

So many of us have been put to the test this year. So many stories out there.

I feel like I’m always holding back when it comes to self expression in any form because I feel like the circumstances always need to be perfect. Is the blog audience appropriate enough, do you know what you are talking about enough, do people want to listen enough, are you really that exciting enough? Enough with the enoughs, at the end of the day I don’t even really care about these things. At the end of the day the majority of the joy in this will be in the writing and creating, and in the years later looking it over and laughing. It really isn’t about those other things. Say people do end up liking what I have posted? Well ya know we can cross that bridge when we get there sort of thing. Hiking, social working; it may not be everybody’s thing but they’re my things and that’s entirely okay. Another enough question that did just float by is: “is this private enough?”. Well that enough needs to be considered. 

June 1, 2018 | Mesa Lakes Painting

The Castle

Capitol Reef National Park, Utah

tenderqueerthings #54, Mar Pascual. 2016.

Cutler Creek

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One of the reasons I won’t allow myself to call this a real hiking blog yet is because half of the time we/I didn’t finish the hike because...well I don’t know, at first it felt like there was always something! I also don’t really read maps, use compasses, or have a GPS watch or anything, so those are all goals that I have. In the mean time, I feel that I do need to record my experiences so that I can remember and avoid these sorts of things next time.

Now I’m writing this from a memory of 5 months ago, so I am a giving out a warning that this should be taken with a grain of salt. But I remember the drive there was wack! Nathan has a 4WD truck and we did not feel comfortable driving all the way to the trail head. Pretty sure we had to walk a little more than .5 to the trailhead, and soon after the trail began, a roaring creek prevented us from really going farther--plus we had done the Owl Creek Pass drive earlier that day, which I’ll have to post on another day. 

Here are some directions/descriptions for the trail:

Blog 1

Blog 2

Below are some pictures of the creek that made us turn away and the cool view from the crazy drive.