LAS VEGAS DAY FIFTEEN November 25, 2020

Amargosa Trail Overlook and Lone Mountain (3,342’) 9X

Up early on this fine Wednesday, I had a dental appointment as follow-up to my pulled tooth. Checking, I found a hike to do nearby the dental office, at Hidden Falls Park. Leaving home at about 6 a.m., and passing under the Arch, I got there at about sunrise. Using the restroom, and driving to the Amargosa Trailhead, I started the hike to an overlook. The trail or route became class 2, so I clambered to the top of a small bump.

The view from the top was okay, with a vista of Henderson, NV. I was looking at homes, and this city was a potential choice. Nice and cheaper than Reno, I didn’t want to live where it’s over 100 degrees for three months out of the year. Now also to have to deal with Clark County Parks, so far, I’m glad I didn’t buy a house here.

Supporting greener and cleaner, I had looked at willing my estate to Churchill County. I’d offer getting them 7 CyberTrucks for the police department, but they’d probably just sell them to use for gas costs. As family wants none of it, and they obviously refuse my wealth, I’m looking for a wife to leave it all to. So far, nobody. I’m an older guy with likely needing a caregiver in so many more years. I hope to be alert and aware for 20 more years, as family had good genes. It’d be fun and a life of adventure, with the CyberTruck and even the Model 3, both. As most people hate hiking, let alone peak bagging, I’m pretty safe with my estate to be going back to the pension fund and government.

Being careful in the descent, I stopped to chat with a mountain biker. Then to get the teeth checked, and the doctor said it was healing fine. So then off to the freeway, and to Lone Mountain Trailhead, with a breakfast burger enroute.

Doing the climb to the top, I scribbled out the entry about names, as requested. I took photos of every entry, as it was missing from where I had left it. Someone had moved it to away from the top. I thought someone had thrown it over the edge. It was by the hazard warning sign to the south. Likely, I figured it wouldn’t last up here too long, and the way it sounds, I likely won’t get permission for the register. If this succeeded in being placed, I’d leave more registers, as others already have. But if Vegas hates them that much, I’ll then save my money for myself. This is a test of how green the hikers and government all are.

As a family did art on the exact top, I waited to place the register by the true summit. This consumed about an hour of my time, with the view being about the same. I had my long underwear on, so I perspired like a pig.

Also, I had gotten a phone solicitation as I drew into the parking area. They offered zero interest on assuming my credit cards debt. Only there was a $900+ fee for this, but one time, so tempting, if I didn’t most always pay off my credit card debt every month. This wasted my time, and so I forgot to set the workout app on my Watch.

After putting the register back next to the true top, I got back to the car, quickly. Beelining home, I’d wait to see what the parks people say. Likely now to bag other peaks, as I’ve been doing searching. I’ll be back to Lone Mountain to remove the register if that’s the decision. On the way down, I offered a hiker that I had met before, to maintain the register with $15 minimum wage supported. He bags the peak every so often, by him, and when I leave for another city, it’d be good to have the register maintained. New books and pens costs would be reimbursed.

If I get permission, the way the books are filling up with entries, I’d get more books to place, and ship the filled up books to Bancroft. So then the books will be in the UCB register archives, and the hikers entered would go down in history, for how long the register repository is funded. Hikers could check the perhaps coming website to view the registers digitally, as with my own website, if I am allowed.

So, then, a service to peak bagging, as has been my whole life. I led free trips for the hiking club till their ban, then for other chapters and then the mountaineering club, till nobody would sign-up or attend. With offers now on my website and social media, to support hiking and peak bagging jobs for up to $500 a peak, so far, I am refused, even for video chat.

The vaccine is now due in some 18 days. I’m likely to get it by the end of the year. By then, I’d be living in another city. To be bagging peaks with registers where they are supported. And then to begin the restart to dining and carpools, with salary to be offered. It’s to stay safe until the immunization, and then for me, the virus hazards would be over.

Doing well on my current investments, and also my finances, it’s looking great. Nobody wants any adventure job, so be it. The old hiking club said, “Hiking is work, and we’re not getting paid.” So, with nothing for them, and also them being polluters, they get nothing, as I don’t pay hike-haters. To be carbon zero, I think that I’d achieved this now. Even carbon negative, with my donations to tree planting. I’m having fun, with peak bagging and hiking, with the Tesla, and fine dining.

Home, it was to bed, and to get back up at 6:30 p.m., so I worked on my website post for today. I had instant ramen for dinner, with food at home. With nobody to want any escort job, with the turkey dinner on me, I may be celebrating Thanksgiving alone. I looked for the best dining ops for the holiday, and likely to spend $50 for a great meal. Nobody to want any part of this, so it goes with everybody.

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