I had some fun this year, despite a few challenges. With a bad knee and my wife laid up with a bad heel, we didn't get to do as much backpacking as we wanted. But we did a long car trip through the Southwest, Made trips to Joshua Tree and Death Valley, and managed to get in about 45 bag nights together, including two shorter backpacking trips.

To fill in the empty calendar dates, I did two weeks of trail crew work in the back country...
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