Hiking Goals Recap 22-23

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This year, we didn’t meet all our goals for our hiking year.  I’m totally good with that.

This year was the definition of life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.  We didn’t count on most things that happened to us- our big spring break trip was cancelled due to a huge home repair that cleaned us out, we were engaged in a legal issue for months that we didn’t anticipate at all, and we found out we are expecting a baby!  It is a mix of wonderful and weird, but all in all, good things.  Each of these things caused some change in plans.  

We did not hit our minimum 100 hikes.  We got 63- not bad!  More than 52 which is how this whole thing began.  

We did get 20 new trails in.  We traveled to some new places where we hiked.  One of our favorites was Palo Duro Canyon in Texas.  We also found some new local trails which was part of what this goal was for.

We finally did our wildflower hike which was overdue from the year before.  We did a bluebell hike on Easter and it was one of the most memorable hikes of the year.

We did not get our overnight hike in nor did we hit every state that touches Missouri (except Nebraska which we are saving for our future South Dakota).  Missouri actually has the most states bordering it of any other state!  We did get to hike in Iowa which we hadn’t previously done so that was great.  Oklahoma and Illinois as well.  

Of course, we hit some of our very favorite Missouri places and local trails too.

And of course, our favorite Missouri waterways. What’s better than a hike that ends in the river?!

I did not feel as much pressure to accomplish these goals this year.  As we set goals for the coming year, it’s become more like a wishlist, a hope, a dream.  Because we know especially since 2020 that we can plan but our plan doesn’t necessarily survive contact with the enemy.  Or in our case, contact with the year ahead.  This coming year, we know that the baby will be coming, and we are excited to see how life looks with our new addition.  Hope he likes that baby backpack because he has some hikes in his future!  🙂