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2016 Adventures

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With plenty of time to kill here on ice planet Hoth, Lola and I have been making plans.   When we're not working on trying to keep apocalyptic diseases from destroying the world  in our pajamas... Pandemic:  Legacy.  Everyone in the world died this game.  Sorry about that everyone.  Our bad. ...we have been busy inventing this summer's ridiculous adventures.  Looks like a lot more hiking this year.  First up:  Thru hiking the Tahoe Rim Trail.  At only 165 miles around Lake Tahoe in the eastern Sierra Nevadas, this trail should be a relative breeze after the Colorado Trail's 486 miles.  We should be able to bang this one out in a leisurely 12 or 13 days.  Originally we wanted to hike the John Muir Trail out of Yosemite down to Mt. Whitney (210 miles), but it's looking like a big snow year over there and we would only be able to hike the first two weeks of July because of Lola's work schedule, so things might be a bit hairy that early in the season.  The