Where I live

I get asked from time to time where I actually live in Utah, so I decided to respond. I love where I live. It helps to keep me mellow and non-violent, even when I have to suffer the occasional door-to-door sales person or Girl Scouts selling cookies. When I get stressed out, I have immediate relief available in the form of the Lone Peak Wilderness, about eight kilometers from my house, and on the way, some beautiful little fishing lakes at 3100 meters altitude. To get to the lakes, I take a trailhead that starts about two kilometers from my home. The hike to the lakes is about five kilometers of “Walking in beauty”, a Navajo Indian phrase. Here is a nice and short video of the hike to the first of three lakes  you encounter: Red Pine Lake:

There, I can fly-fish for Bonneville Cutthroat Trout or the few larger Mackinaw Lake Trout that lurk in the deeper points of the lake. I practice catch and release fishing so that the poor souls who hike here to go fishing in a wild lake have something to catch. The only danger I have to deal with besides falling down is the occasional Moose or Mountain Lion. Because of my Emphysema, I may have to bring a portable oxygen bottle on the hike some time in the  future. In an emergency, with a cell phone call, I can have a rescue helicopter there within minutes. All in all, it is not a bad way to go. Salt Lake International Airport is only 20 minutes from my home, when I need to expand my horizons.