News from the Appalachian Trail Conservancy note the new "official" trail length.
The official length of the A.T. in 2021 has been announced: 2,193.1 miles! This length changes slightly each year due to Trail modifications/reroutes and more precise measurement of A.T. sections.
Since we are all stuck home, some 94,000 new in-ground swimming pools are to be opened by the end of the year. There is one being built on the lot near me in Westfield as I write this.
And Hot Tubs have grown in popularity by 400% (got ours some ten years ago).
For those who want to do this more inexpensively, try heading to the local farm store and buy a livestock galvanized tub. Then add a water heater (propane or electric) and yippee, you got a hot tub.
Can't wait until Paris 2024 when we get to see Breakdancing as a new event! The spinning and twirling should be spectacular.
Also good news is the subtraction of Boxing and to a lesser degree Weight Lifting. I mean watching people beat the s&*t out of each other is not what I call a sport. Just like the fools who drive around in a circle in a fast car is not a sport IMHO.
No snow in Westfield, but twenty miles east in Wilbraham, the trails of Rice Nature Reserve were at least two inches deep with snow and ice.
Just a shot of the trail here
Want more information? Or a trailmap? Will return on a milder day.
There is no shortage of news related to Covid. Southwest Airlines is threatening massive layoffs or furloughs if union employees don't take a pay cut.
On the other side of tourism news, Colorado wants the ski industry to get the first vaccines, after essential employees to spur the economy.
And you can always do a Scholar Google search for more stuff to read.
here are the slides from my animated slide show presented 1 December 2020 via Zoom.
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