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Every day is your last day. Living is a terminal disease. I'm sorry this happened. Most likely, some latent, underlying & hidden condition will be found. That make it easier, hardly. What is an answer? Never stop living.

Got a foot of snow here in the outer suburbs of Freeport, ME. Blew off the driveway at sunrise. Then throughout the morning, got three more inches of ice pellets, mixed with sleet and topped off with a thin veneer of freezing rain while blowing it all out and away for the second time. Gentle...

Well Done!

Hey ChipC; I miswrote my response into confusion. The lepto vaccine is only protection from the consequences, does nothing to modify the dog's behavior. Zeus is my fourth true lab, fifih in a long line of hiking companion. First was a shelter mixed lab named Jackie. She went up Owl's Head...

Thank you for the superb advice on this post. I will now be even better prepared for hiking with my Zeus - the best dog in the world!

Definitely cold, not dead. When doing extreme winter shots, I keep two sets of spares in my inner pants pockets. Oh what fun it is to put cold batteries in there for rewarming.....

Thank you each and all for the thoughtful and thought provoking responses. 2007 will now be Zeus's developmental year, probably no 4,000 footers. Definitely a good time to see the 'flatlanderesque' trails. So there will be with and without hikes. Perhaps I will challenge myself to get the...

Finally back on VFTT, after an apparently 1Y6M hiatus. A year ago, I suddenly lost my hiking companion - Thor, yellow lab. Took my heart out of hiking for the season. Now have a new yellow lab - Zeus. Will be breaking him into hiking gently. Hale being first on the list, then probably...

For a nonverbal, visual sign, why not use the American Sign Language for VFTT? There are websites that illusrate the appropriate finger configuration. Also, I have not read the 8 pages of responses and repartees, so if this idea has been previously recommended, I so yield to the original...

Runaround Pond in Durham Maine, a short walk from my remotely rural estate.

So far as ebooks, are you planning on using a PDA?, or your desktop computer? I use the Dell Axim X50 with a rhinoskin case. So far as software, use both Microsoft Reader and a .pdf reader. I'm usually geeking while peaking, use the PDA Notes software to capture random thoughts along the...

Nicely done, very nicely done.

Tomorrow 20050611 I'll be going up and over Starr King to Waumbek tomorrow, will post on my experiences. It looks like a briefly easy day hike. Not like some of the other ones in my future as I continue my 4k quest. Good Luck with getting them done!

Sunday - May 29. Left the house at 5:30 AM, McD's breakfast, and at the Tripoli Road trailhead at 8:30 AM. Hiking companions - son & mother. Mom stayed low to amble around at her own slower pace. 10:43 West summit. Yes, off the book pace, still working on the necessary stanima for a steadier...

Greetings and G'day; I've been informally peak bagging since the mid 70s. A global career kept me away through three guide book editions and for too many years. Every several years or so, I managed to get back to bag one or several; to relive the memories & always enjoying the time out and...