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Mammoth Trip, 2026

September 15

Mammoth Crest



I have long held that to ward off getting old you best just keep moving. That started a couple decades ago when my doctor frightened me with the specter of diabetes and death by cholesterol. It was then that I began regarding myself as an athlete and began a regimen, escalating cycling goals and racing the bike up hills in the Low-Key Hillclimbs, for a time taking up running which I hadn't done since high school, much later taking up climbing as cycling faded in the wake of the Pandemic. And of course hiking and the Sierra.

I considered myself an athlete and tried to live accordingly. -F.