Jefferson County

I was born in the Bavarian Alps and lived the first nine years of my life there, so one could say that I was born with the love of mountains in my blood. A number of years after immigrating to the United States, I eventually moved to Colorado where I lived in a western suburb of Denver, right at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, for over 40 years. That’s where my love for the mountains grew as high as the mighty Rockies themselves. Though I have been back to the Alps many times, where I have done some of the finest hikes of my life, I have also hiked in other places around the world including New Zealand, Australia, Borneo, Philippines, Hong Kong, Norway and the United Kingdom. But by far, most of my hiking has been in the United States, and most of that in Colorado. Since I started keeping records, I have hiked well over 10,000 miles, much of that after I retired in 2008 from a career in Civil Engineering. In the process, I have gained over 2 million feet of elevation (that’s about 390 miles). And I’m still going strong, with my loving wife as my favorite hiking partner, but now we live in the mountains of southern California where we moved in late 2021. We have already discovered many new places to go hiking.