Why bmmvh?

Over the last couple of decades I have spent an increasing amount of time hiking. Weekend hikes, climbing and backpacking in Alaska, have pleasantly morphed into a lifestyle of daily hiking in Colorado with some cold weather retreats in Utah and Arizona. In fact, my "recreation hiking" has turned into an actual lifestyle where I hike everyday, and most of the year, all day.

This delightful evolution became a wonderful reality as I gradually-over years-spent more time being unsettled in mind and heart about the seeming futility of human endeavor. I specifically mean endeavors of a physical sort. Work to make money to sustain what is often just a prison of attachment to the synthetic material world. In this awareness a new freedom began to envelop my whole person to the point where currently I spend less time working during the week than I do eating. Hike. Eat. Sleep. That is what consumes my time. And, I LOVE IT!

I have very little in the way of financial resources yet, I feel like I am the wealthiest man on earth. I have also noticed that to have one (freedom or material wealth) can only happen at the expense of the other. No exceptions. Yes, I mean there are no exceptions. I will expound on this much more throughout these blog posts here at bmmvh.

Sorry, I don't have anything to sell you here at this site. Barefoot-Meditating-Minimalist-Vegetarian-Hiker (bmmvh) does not lend itself to much in the way of tangible assets. If tangible assets cease to dominate a person's life and ambitions, then there is not much to sell, is there? Encouragement is probably the greatest thing I can offer anyone. And while everyone needs some trickle of income to pay and make their way through each day, I can live enjoyably and healthily for a month on what an average person makes in 1-3 days.

Let me introduce to to bmmvh and offer a retreat from the stresses of life, a peek into a much bigger, exciting and fulfilling world along with a challenge to grow and prosper in ways that are eternally more satisfying than any other way of living or viewing the world.