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Another one of me with Luigi, Mario, and the Princess, taken by @Chris Mosbacker on the Rings Trail.

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I saw this thread and thought I'd put up some pictures. I noticed a few "then and now" pictures and thought I'd take the same format.

When I first took up hiking and backpacking I rarely took a camera and when I did I never took selfies. In the 1970's I had a few overseas postings and started to be more serious about using a camera. The oldest hiking picture I can find with me in it is the one below which was taken in 1975 on Guam Island in the Pacific.
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This is on Mahe Island, Republic of Seychelles (Indian Ocean) in 1976. The island on the horizon is Silhouette - which I still think is about the coolest name ever for an island and very appropriate at this location.
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On Luzon Island in the Philippines in 1978. The steps were carved into the side of the cliff by the Spanish 400 years ago.
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On the east coast of Honshu Island, Japan in 1979. This is the same area that was devastated by a tsunami a few years ago.
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Coast of Oregon, 1982. She eventually agreed to marry me.
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Sangre De Cristos, CO - Late 1990's
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With my kids on the Continental Divide. Early 2000's. Never Summer Wilderness, CO
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Same kids. Badlands NP, SD 2011. This is one my favorite all time backpacking pictures.
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Canyonlands last year.CB150134.jpg

On the summit of Taum Sauk Mountain - the highest point in Missouri. As you can see, it was a tough climb. This was also last year.
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I wasn't planning on posting anything from my hike to the top of Jack's Mountain today but while sitting up top, I could here a pig like sound coming up the trail. I thought to myself, "no this can't be", but sure enough the next thing I know is there is a bulldog making it to the top. That is two weeks in a row! This one happened to be a French Bulldog named Bear. I couldn't believe that I had run into bulldogs on top of peaks (albeit shorter ones) two weeks in a row! In all my years of hiking, I can't recall every seeing either one on a trail. If I can only get to see a Basset Hound next weekend on Mount Wire and an Irish Wolfhound on Grandeur a couple weeks later then I will be able to say that I've seen all my favorite hound dogs on top of a mountain. :)

01.jpgScatman and Scatwoman on top of Jack's Mountain

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A Bighorn Sheep? Perhaps a Mountain Lion? No, it is the ever elusive Mountain Bulldog!

03.jpgBear, the French Bulldog
 
scatman said:
I wasn't planning on posting anything from my hike to the top of Jack's Mountain today but while sitting up top, I could here a pig like sound coming up the trail. I thought to myself, "no this can't be", but sure enough the next thing I know is there is a bulldog making it to the top. That is two weeks in a row! This one happened to be a French Bulldog named Bear. I couldn't believe that I had run into bulldogs on top of peaks (albeit shorter ones) two weeks in a row! In all my years of hiking, I can't recall every seeing either one on a trail. If I can only get to see a Basset Hound next weekend on Mount Wire and an Irish Wolfhound on Grandeur a couple weeks later then I will be able to say that I've seen all my favorite hound dogs on top of a mountain. :)

View attachment 40703Scatman and Scatwoman on top of Jack's Mountain

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A Bighorn Sheep? Perhaps a Mountain Lion? No, it is the ever elusive Mountain Bulldog!

View attachment 40705Bear, the French Bulldog
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Scatwoman! I love it. Does she know?
 
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