Nature Therapy

[skipro]

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)

[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

[skipro in reply to Tommays56]

Hi

Which heart zones work

[Tommays56 in reply to skipro]

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

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

[Kwenda in reply to Tommays56]

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

[skipro in reply to Kwenda]

Wow you can make it all day

Congratulations

👍😀🙏

[studebaker]

Beautiful picture.

[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.

[skipro in reply to Jetliz]

Awe so worth it

[CycleWonder]

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

[skipro in reply to CycleWonder]

Thank you

[skipro in reply to CycleWonder]

Little by little baby steps are becoming bigger and longer😀

[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.

[skipro in reply to spi3]

Thank you

[spi3 in reply to spi3]

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

[skipro in reply to spi3]

Thank you

[nuji]

Lovely pics Skipro. Keep the adrenaline pumping.

[nuji]

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

[skipro in reply to nuji]

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!!

[skipro in reply to nuji]

Not sure how to do google pin

[Islandvibes]

So beautiful

[kasren]

👍👍

[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

[skipro in reply to Kwenda]

I love that song and the Swiss Alps

[CLLCalifornia-USA]

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

[skipro in reply to CLLCalifornia-USA]

I've only been in winter but can just imagine how beautiful summers are😀

[CLLCalifornia-USA in reply to skipro]

Beautiful year round. 👍

[J1015]

Beautiful! For sure, you don’t live in Texas. We are so hot and dry that it’s hard to be outside for any length of time. Thank you for posting .

[skipro in reply to J1015]

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

[J1015 in reply to skipro]

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

[skipro in reply to J1015]

I'll add my prayers to yours🙏

[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.

[skipro in reply to bennevisplace]

Beautifully written.

[CLLCalifornia-USA in reply to bennevisplace]

Couldn’t have phrased it better.❤️

[Stamphappy]

👋 Skipro! How very very lovely!! Glad to hear you are out and about enriching yourself in every way 😊 . 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.

[skipro in reply to Stamphappy]

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!

[Stamphappy in reply to skipro]

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

[Doggoneit101]

Beautiful picture! Keep them coming. I'm so envious of you right now. LoL 😆 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

[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 “Sound of Music” 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