Hey all,
After 481 posts, numerous group hangs, a lot of learning and interaction on here, and meeting many, many new people that I had grown to enjoy hanging with, I disappeared after September 25th, 2014. At the time, my wife was hospitalized, in the ICU, due to her transplanted lungs going into organ rejection. Unfortunately, in November of that year, she passed away. That has a way of putting a damper on anything even remotely social for awhile, even forums.
It's been over two years since then. I've went out on one or two solo hangs late in 2016 (one just a few weeks ago), and one with a few friends from HF/ Ohio last summer. I'm "re-dipping" my feet into it again. You can't imagine the ability that hanging in the woods has to take your mind off of things.
With that said, I'm back! I think, lol. I missed it here. Just getting back to hanging a little bit has rekindled my desire to socialize on HF, so, allow me to "reintroduce" myself:
I'm Mike. I'm a 36 year old, former Marine and father of a 9 year old girl. I was born and raised in Ohio, where I still live, and work as an IT Manager. I've been hanging now for about 10 years, backpacking in general long before that, not to mention my time afield in the Marine Corps. I'm definitely a gear junky, mostly for stoves and cutting implements, lol. This past year, I started a website, with hopes to someday take newbies out on guided trips and teach them the basics as well, and just last week, I posted my first video to YouTube, with more to come.
Glad to be back all, even if it is the first post in over two years, it's significant to me!
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