Thursday Hike with Sierra Canyon Hiking Group

I went on another beautiful hike yesterday. Seven of us from the Del Webb Sierra Canyon Hiking Group did the Marlette Lake Trail. According to the guide book it is a 9 mile round trip hike. It was a relatively easy hike. The trail starts at Spooner Lake which is one mile north of highway 50 on highway 28, the highway that goes around the east side of Lake Tahoe. There were lots of Aspen trees along the trail. They were just beginning to turn yellow. A few more weeks and they should be stunning. It was a beautiful day and a great day to be in the mountains.

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A Great House in Union City – For Sale in a Buyer’s Market

We picked a really bad time to try to sell our house. Sales of existing homes fell 4.3% nationwide in August and
San Francisco Bay Area house and condominium sales fell 25% to the lowest for an August in 15 years. I think our house is a great examples of the slump. We have priced it very competitively at more than 10% less than what similar houses were selling for a year ago but our agent says that nobody is even looking right now. It sure seems like a great time for someone to get a great deal. I am not worried because I know that in the long run it will sell and even at these lower prices we will still make a nice profit but still…..

You can see pictures of the house on our listing. We were down in the bay area Tuesday to see family
and do some yard work at the house.

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I planted some more flowers. It was a picture perfect bay area day to be working in the garden.
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Del Webb, Sierra Canyon, Reno Hiking Group Monday Hike

Today was the best Monday hike we have done so far with the Sierra Canyon Hiking Group. We parked on the Mount Rose Highway and hiked south on the Tahoe Rim Trail up Chickadee Ridge. It was a beautiful day but cold when we started out. There was quite a bit of ice on the trail. I loved it though. The scenery of the forest, mountains, and Lake Tahoe was stunning. The crisp mountain air made the day all the more glorious. We must have seen 20 different bicyclists on the trail but a only a couple of other hikers.

Here is the Flickr link to the pictures of the hike.

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Kilimanjara after White Mountain

I had a nice email exchange a few days ago with Bob Coomber AKA 4WheelBob, the guy who recently climbed White Mountain and was the first person to do it in a wheel chair. I talked about him in my blog here and here.

There is a great YouTube video of his ascent of White Mountain posted by Rick at besthikes.com

In our email exchange I commented that one of the nice things about blogging is the people you ‘meet’ as a result. On of the things Bob said in his email to me is….

"I’m not a real publicity hound by nature, so my challenge the rest of the year is to assert myself to Corporate America, hoping some businesses find some PR value in sponsoring my planned Kilimanjaro summit next summer."

So if you know anyone who would like to sponsor him let him know.