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Posted By : DAWaverly - 5/9/2008 7:13 PM
I have mentioned in some threads here that I hike and build hiking trails. My Dad and I maintain a section of the Buckeye Trail, a 1400+ mile hiking trail that winds around Ohio.
When a logging company clearcut timber within our section last year, Dad and I rerouted the trail to a safe location. To our surprise we were awarded the Buckeye Trail Association's 2007 Trail Star Award.

Hiking and building trail helps me in many ways. The exercise is just what the doctors want me to do. The physical labor of building trail has helped my arthritic spine to the point that I no longer need medication for the pain. I have also used some of my trail experiences in my writing. It is a good salve for writers block as well.

Go Hike!

- Deven
Blogtide Rising

published
"The Journey" at Every Day Fiction

forthcoming
"An Awakening of Shadows" in The Infinity Swords anthology from Carnivah House
"All That Glitters" at Every Day Fiction arriving 30 May 2008.


Posted By : ahmedakhan - 5/10/2008 12:16 AM
Congrats!

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Posted By : Nicholas - 5/10/2008 3:03 AM
Congrats on the award! I love hiking on trails too, but I think maintaining them sounds like too much work for me...
 
 


Posted By : HTKuehl - 5/10/2008 9:14 AM
Congrats!

 
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Forthcoming: 
"Raising the Dead." Bewildering Stories: Issue 288, May 5, 2008.
"To Have and to Hold." Flashshot, May 10, 2008.
"Fire and Brimstone." Every Day Fiction, May 16, 2008.
"The Final Goodbye." Ruins Metropolis. Hadley Rille Books, 2008.
"Dalamar's Quest." Flashing Swords, February 2009.
 


Posted By : C.L. - 5/10/2008 9:52 AM
Congrats, Deven!

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Posted By : Lyn - 5/10/2008 11:22 AM
So they "tracked" you down and gave you an award, eh? Congrats.

Lyn from ResAliens
Reviewing Zines at The Fix
Reviewing Short Stories at My Blog
And Promoting Strange Worlds of Lunacy


Posted By : RHFay - 5/10/2008 11:28 AM
Good for you. Congrats!

"I'm going to do what the warriors of old did. I'm going to recite poetry!" 
 
Richard H. Fay - Azure Lion Productions 

Posted By : Charles Gramlich - 5/10/2008 5:23 PM
Cool, as a hiker I appreciate you.

Charles Gramlich
 

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