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Awe I am always lifted and strengthened physically, mentally and spiritually in the mountains.

Here are some of the wall to wall wild flowers after a 900 vertical foot 2 mile hike at 9,000 feet ( I won't lie, what used to be easy is now exhausting after relapse and starting V + O but the adrenaline rush prevailed)

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Tommays56

I agree completely and have gotten the best results using my bicycle as I can keep my heart rate in very specific zones that our most beneficial in controlling my fatigue issues

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skiproโ€ข in reply toTommays56

Hi

Which heart zones work

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Tommays56โ€ข in reply toskipro

Kind of individual thing over the last 18 months I have worked back to using all of them ๐Ÿ˜€ have just done a crazy 47 mile gravel race as I wanted the experience

But day-to-day zone 2/3 for 2 hours

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Kwendaโ€ข in reply toTommays56

I am not up to racing. My exercise is all day expeditions on my mountain bike, through the forests, or walking in the mountains.

Dick

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skiproโ€ข in reply toKwenda

Wow you can make it all day

Congratulations

๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ™

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studebaker

Beautiful picture.

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Jetliz

Wow stunning! Great achievement there's nothing like an adrenaline rush when you've done a good climb or walk especially with a view like that. I find it quite tough sometimes but what a reward.

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skiproโ€ข in reply toJetliz

Awe so worth it

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CycleWonder

That is a worthy goal, getting up to that view! Congratulations are in order!

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skiproโ€ข in reply toCycleWonder

Thank you

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skiproโ€ข in reply toCycleWonder

Little by little baby steps are becoming bigger and longer๐Ÿ˜€

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spi3

Beautiful-- The other day, I went to my local boutique and noticed framed photos on the wall for from a local photographer.....Of course I thought of you.

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skiproโ€ข in reply tospi3

Thank you

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spi3โ€ข in reply tospi3

Hope to let you know that you got to share your beautiful work

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skiproโ€ข in reply tospi3

Thank you

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nuji

Lovely pics Skipro. Keep the adrenaline pumping.

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nuji

BTW - do you have a google pin or coordinates for this location? Itโ€™s beautiful. Where is it?

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skiproโ€ข in reply tonuji

It's at a ski resort in Utah right out side of Salt Lake City. It's called Alta. Great for hiked, snowshoeing and skiing!!

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skiproโ€ข in reply tonuji

Not sure how to do google pin

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Islandvibes

So beautiful

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Kazzie12

๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

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Kwenda

I am with you on the power of a mountain view, in my case the Swiss mountains.

You started your post with the word AWE, an underused word, that has great therapeutic advantages.

John Denver's " Rocky Mountain High " comes to mind...

Dick

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skiproโ€ข in reply toKwenda

I love that song and the Swiss Alps

I live close to Lake Tahoe and go there as often as life allows. The mountains and Lake are great medicine. Sally

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skiproโ€ข in reply toCLLCalifornia-USA

I've only been in winter but can just imagine how beautiful summers are๐Ÿ˜€

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CLLCalifornia-USAโ€ข in reply toskipro

Beautiful year round. ๐Ÿ‘

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J1015

Beautiful! For sure, you donโ€™t live in Texas. We are so hot and dry that itโ€™s hard to be outside for any length of time. Thank you for posting .

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skiproโ€ข in reply toJ1015

Awe sorry about the heat. I struggle with it every time I go see my son and his family in McKinney

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J1015โ€ข in reply toskipro

Then you understand. We are breaking record highs for a record length of days. We pray for rain daily.

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skiproโ€ข in reply toJ1015

I'll add my prayers to yours๐Ÿ™

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bennevisplace

Wow, that's some beautiful mountain scenery to be in amongst.

I'm like you Skipro, whenever I get up into the mountains I feel and function better. Nan Shepherd, in "The Living Mountain", has this to say: "At first I had thought that this lightness of body was a universal reaction to rarer air. It surprised me to discover that some people suffered malaise at altitude that released me, but were happy in low valleys where I felt extinguished. Then I began to see that our devotions have more to do with our physiological pecularities than we care to admit. I am a mountain lover because my body is at its best in the rarer air of the heights and communicates its elation to the mind".

Go well.

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skiproโ€ข in reply tobennevisplace

Beautifully written.

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CLLCalifornia-USAโ€ข in reply tobennevisplace

Couldnโ€™t have phrased it better.โค๏ธ

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Stamphappy

๐Ÿ‘‹ Skipro! How very very lovely!! Glad to hear you are out and about enriching yourself in every way ๐Ÿ˜Š . Thank you for taking us along by posting yet another breathtaking photo. Sure wish I was there. I can imagine the breeze and nearly smell the air...such a relaxing yet invigorating sight. Please keep these gorgeous photos coming, Skipro.

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skiproโ€ข in reply toStamphappy

Awe the smells were so amazing as it had rained earlier. Cool pine scented air is good for my soul especially to help forget my disease and treatments!

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Stamphappyโ€ข in reply toskipro

Amazing how your description takes me there ๐Ÿ˜Š . I hope you take another hike soon and describe the entire experience with pictures too!!

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Doggoneit101

Beautiful picture! Keep them coming. I'm so envious of you right now. LoL ๐Ÿ˜† If I did a hike like you just did I would be exhausted for days. But it would be so worth it for that view! Thanks for sharing your beautiful outing with all of us. Here's to many more outings in the near future. Cheers

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Pin57

Great pic Skipro n an epic ski area Alta is as a summer beauty too.

The pic reminds me of one of my fav hikes that starts near Crested Butte n goes through โ€œSound of Musicโ€ mountain heavily flowered high alpine meadows(like your pic shows) n then the trail goes over the Maroon Bells n down into Aspen.

Hikes like yours SkiPro and the one I just described are therapeutic!

Keep those great pics coming n keep up your recovery SkiPro!

Danny

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