Maria and I were checking out portions of the trail I will hike next summer this is one location called the Grand Gulch. It is located in Capital Reef National Park.

Here is the new logo my friend Christine made for the Four Corners Loop. I am loving it!

During the COVID shut down I am walking through my neighborhood with my backpack on testing the weight, testing how it feels and eating dinner at night in a local park. So I am practicing backpacking.

April 10, 2020
It is after midnight I am learning how to write an electronic journal using my phone and the word processor on it. My plan is to use a non-Wi-Fi connected device while on trail to record my thoughts, what I see, observations I make and stories about the people I encounter. When I get into town with Wi-Fi or a café where I can sit and make a blog post it may be easy to cut and paste what I write in the field directly into the blog add some pictures of what I saw that week and send it on its way.

Well it worked it was not that hard so I could use Pages to talk and take my notes without using Wi-Fi and then when I get into Wi-Fi access I can cut and paste it into this.

I’m speaking into my phone and seeing how this will translate into making a blog post easy for me to do while on trail. I do not want technology to frustrate me so I am playing with it right now to reduce the amount of time I’m trying to tape while in the woods or the desert.

I am busy creating the tools I will use to communicate with the world while hiking the trail I planned.  This blog you are reading is one tool.  Another tool is my Instagram account linked to the left, and now I have created a Facebook page ​https://www.facebook.com/fclta/

Skiing today not on the 4 Corners Loop but I am basically testing this blog to see how easy it is to use

This is a blog test from my cell phone seems to be easy to do

This is a test, only a test.