There’s a cartoon in the 9/9/22 New Yorker that shows salmon jumping upstream over rocks with leopards, pelicans, crocodiles, raccoons, lions, alligators and wolves...

I turn on my windshield wipers and wonder, “Who would drive through driving rain to climb a mountain?” I’m indeed a curious duck.

If you are a beginning or casual hiker, this column may be for you. If I can walk these trails, you can too. I hike every week, but I am not good at it.