Rockies, easy; backyard, not so much

Ann Sheldon Mezger hiking Glacier National Park, which is safer than her backyard

Apparently an Ohio backyard is more dangerous than traipsing through the wilderness – at least for retired BJ Features Editor Ann Sheldon Mezger.

Ann explains on her Facebook page:

“After a week at Glacier and Waterton National Parks, hiking mountain trails, scrambling over rocks, sloshing though a marsh, I come home and sprain my ankle gardening in the backyard.”

 


Ann Sheldon Mezger, Roger Mezger

Ann and husband Roger Mezger, among about two dozen BJ folks who switched to the Plain Dealer, took a train trip to Glacier National Park, which covers a million acres in Montana, and roamed on some of the 700 miles of former Blackfeet and Flathead tribes’ trails.
 
Waterton is adjacent to Glacier, with part of Waterton spilling over into Canada in the land of the Rocky Mountains. The Blackfeet called Glacier, declared a national park 103 years ago, “the backbone of the world.”
 
 Ann’s backyard, and community garden, provide a visual feast of food and flowers. She often supplied her BJ co-workers with tomatoes and other eatings from her gardens.
 
Other than spraining her ankle, Ann also has to be concerned about corn-loving raccoons, which feasted on her plantings two years ago. And not just by looking at the corn.