March 27 2022
Bart's Life - In Numbers and Pictures
It's been five months since Bart died from a lung infection.
It's hard to go on without him. To help, I finished up this
review, laden with numbers, which I'd begun several weeks ago.
It's easy for me to become despondent over Bart's shortened
life. But numbers don't lie; thus this review, which helps
to communicate to me that Bart got a great deal out of life
in his five years, and that his life was well worth living.
Below the numbers are photos of Bart just from a few of
our hiking trips.
Bart. May 26 2016 to August 22 2021
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Lived 5 1/4 years (1913 days).
Lived just over five years (apx 1850 days) with me.
As they say in the media.. "What you need to know",
or as I say.. thot you otta know:
Affections minimum
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Tucked in at night 1800
Major pettings 1000
Minor pettings/greetings 4000 (estimate: 15K - 30K)
My leg 300
In sleeping bag with me 40
------- minimum of 7000 physical
contact affections
Play and other affections
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Wrestling/mouthing with Lucky 600
Chase games with Lucky 300
Dog-park playing 50
Throw-toy sessions with me 30 (Bart had only moderate
interest in retrieval games.)
City adventure
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Off-leash Menards high-speed
back-lot runs alongside my truck 10
Off-leash bike runs 70
Bike pulling (avg one mile) 30
Truck rides in town 1500
Wilderness off-leash adventure
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Long, high-speed, joyful runs
alongside my truck on dirt roads
through the woods 4
Rice Creek, thrashing thru woods 20
Wilderness camps, with roaming 80
Major wilderness hikes
(4 to 8 hours each,
between 10 and 25 miles per day).
(Bart's distances would be two to
three times those distances.) 40
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Bart's forty major off-leash wilderness hikes, or equivalent:
2016 Oregon, California -
free roaming in campsite areas,
a few short day-hikes. 1
2017 Bighorns - five major hikes. 5
Winds - two major hikes in SE area,
three major hikes with Talbotts,
two major hikes in north area. 7
South Fork area - high mesa hike. 1
Medicine Bow - high ridge all-day
and back country all-day. 2
Eclipse day hike. 1
Black Hills - major hike and mountain summit,
hiking and roaming in campsite areas. 2
Lumber hauling - many round-trips to cabin site. 1
2018 Los Pinos - 21 mile one-day hike to Emerald Lake,
four-mile hike to higher camp,
long day-hike and climb mountain,
another long day-hike and climb mountain,
25 mile one-day hike to trailhead. 4
San Juans - over Hunchback Pass to Stormy Gulch area,
major hike back to trailhead. 2
2019 San Juans - Vallecito two-day 21 mile hike to
Trinity Creek camp,
scree-slope climb to high snowfield,
long day-hike to high pass,
21 mile one-day hike to trailhead. 5
Utah - roaming at three campsite areas. 1
2020 Elm Creek - long hike to creek, bushwhacking. 1
2020 Spring trip - camping, roaming, day-hikes at
three campsite areas. 1
2021 Spring trip - major hikes over three-week period;
at least ten major hikes. 10
2021 Vallecito campground area - rock scrambling.
Los Pinos - roaming for four days while healthy. 1
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If the numbers aren't enough for me, I look at the pictures:
Fascinated by cattle on the open range:
That's Bart off to the right:
That's Bart in the center:
Bart lying in the shade
under the tree at 11,200':
Bart on 12,800' pass,
1,600' above our camp,
next three pics:
That's Bart off to the right:
Next four pics: continental divide, 12,700'
Bart is off to the left:
Bart looking back at the distant
haze from whence we came hiking:
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