Category: Hiking and Backpacking
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Alligator Alcatraz
Leftist environmentalists are bringing suit to block the construction of a detention center for illegal aliens in the heart of the Everglades. This should interest Sarasota resident and fellow philosopher Elliott Ruffin Crozat who paid me a visit over the last three days. You can imagine the 'orgy' of philosophizing that took place, both peripatetically…
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Notes on R. C. Sproul, Does God Exist?
Trudy the Calvinist gave me a reading assignment. Herewith a first batch of comments for her and your delectation, discussion, and (presumably inevitable) disagreement. In Chapter One, "The Case for God," Sproul distinguishes between four approaches in apologetics: fideism, evidentialism, presuppositionalism, and "the classical school" (4) He comes out against the first three and nails…
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How to Roast Yourself in Five Different Ways
Substack latest.
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Western Superstitions: Hieroglyphic Canyon Hike out of Cloudview Trailhead
MavPhil commenter Trudy Vandermolen and her husband Ken from Michigan paid me a visit yesterday. It's becoming an annual thing. Next year: either the Garden Valley Loop out of the First Water Trailhead or Fremont Saddle out of Peralta. Here are a couple of shots of me and Trudy from the hike I took them…
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The Peripatetic Zetetic
On the Continental Divide trail near Abiquiu, New Mexico, August 2015.
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Superstition Wilderness: Garden Valley Loop out of First Water Trailhead
The boys were a little anxious but acquitted themselves well on this five and a half mile loop through characteristically rugged Superstition terrain except for the easy walk through Garden Valley itself. The guide books say it takes four and a half hours. It took the old men a bit longer. We left at 6:36…
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Easter Monday Local Ramble
Out the front door, plenty of elevation gain and loss. Hike much, stay sane. The boys acquitted themselves well. Photo credit: Dennis M.
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Treasure Loop, Western Superstitions, 5 April 2022
Lost Dutchman State Park with the Goldfield Mountains to the West behind me. Double left-click for close-up. Photo credit: Dennis Murray.
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I Kill a Bug
And when I do, I apologize to him: "Sorry, man, nothing personal; but just one of my thoughts is worth more than your entire life." But if the insect is no distraction and can be easily dispatched to the outdoors, that is where he goes, or is sent. Sentience as such, no matter how low…
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All’s Well that Ends Well
The hike was almost over. The light was failing as we gingerly negotiated the last steps of the treacherous downgrade of Heart Attack Hill on the Bluff Spring Trail in the Superstition Mountains. Suddenly my hiking partner let out a yell and jumped back at the unmistakable sound of a diamond back rattlesnake (crotalus atrox). …
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The Lure of the Trail
Modern man, a busy little hustler, doesn't know how to live. Substack latest.
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Fremont Saddle, Western Superstitions. Weaver’s Needle
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I Introduce Two New Friends to the Superstition Mountains
One of the great boons of blogging is that the blogger attracts the like-minded. Below are two medical doctors I had the great pleasure of spending the day with in a satisfying break from my Bradleyan reclusivity. Dave K. found me via this weblog and initiated correspondence, so I knew he would be simpatico. I…
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Halcyon October in the Western Superstitions
Photo credit: Barbara Caffaratti
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Peripatetic Philosophy in the Western Superstitions
Dale Tuggy and I explored some new trails in a four and one half hour ramble out of the Cloudview Trailhead, 30 March 2019. Weather exquisite, companionship excellent, conversation both deep and wide-ranging. Physical condition at the end: righteously tuckered and ready for re-hydration. In a word, beer. 2