just a little bit of dread interlaced with little wins

[serafaery]

Avalanche let me trim her claws with no fuss! Didn't even pretend to try to bite me once. She was getting caught on everything and her claws tapped the floor when she walked, she was overdue. She seems much happier, we always have a play session right after as a reward so she's gotten a ton of playtime this morning.

Just saw a youtube video, "man crawls 11 hrs to rescue himself after getting injured in mountains," and thought, this is so going to be me one day. I figure I will have to stop hiking solo at age 60, if not before. Everywhere I go lately is pretty highly populated so I wouldn't be stranded for long. But I feel like injury on trail is just inevitable at this point.

Dreading work today, I love my job, it's just the getting there part.

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[michaelboy]

We went hiking/backpacking in the Cirque of the Towers in the Wind River Range of Wyoming at 62. It was tough...although we did have pack horse wranglers for the first 10 miles in...after that it was tough with a lot of boulder climbing. Glad we did it but at our age we said, not again :) Be careful gentle one.