Jeff Petersen

At Christmastime, we kids would pore through the Sears and Roebuck and J.C. Penney catalogues for gift ideas. Our entreaties, though, fell on deaf ears of Great Depression parents.

Americans, on average, take 1,870 fewer steps on Christmas Day than an ordinary day.

Walkers enjoy the Pendleton River Parkway, which follows the Umatilla River for 2.5 miles through Pendleton, with ample opportunities to spot wildlife and birds.

I am hiking along the balance beam-thin Juniper Canyon trail when a few yards behind me a rock slide Your free access has ended.

For many baby boomers, rock around the clock has become limp around the block. Some of us have even become couch potatoes.

Perhaps you’ve seen them — the guys in their 60s or 70s cruising down Main Street in Walla Walla wit Your free access has ended.

Admission: I don’t like cold. Even though I have Scandinavian blood, and aim to walk-run five miles a Your free access has ended.

When I was young and thought I’d live forever, when ski hills looked fun and not deadly, when comput Your free access has ended.

Clouds take top billing near the “Holy Grail” juniper tree. A lonely sentinel beside the trail is a testament to nature's true grit.

Monty Python pursued the Holy Grail.