Three weeks in the Sonoran desert

[Kauri]

Dazed, when do you expect age to stop you.  I'm 69.  I think you're a few years younger?  I don't plan to stop though I can't do the distances I used to be able to manage.  My attitude is that if I stop, I die, so...  I just keep going   Your hiking adventures leave me in the dust at this point, actually.

I remember many years ago meeting an older couple in Mammoth hiking between Deer Lakes and Duck Lake. There's a faint use trail part of the way between these lakes but otherwise it's off-trail; the entire loop from Lake Mary is quite long. (Geek, have you done this loop, or just hiked to the lakes? I can't remember if I've asked you about this hike.) They were probably in their late 70s and they said they did that hike every year, because they knew that once they stopped doing it they wouldn't be able to do it again.