Extreme
Day Hiking
Davey Around
the World
S
ome people think going to the beach
is a vacation. Others prefer cruises. But
there are a few people who would rather
ascend mountains with elevations ranging
from 8, 839 to 14, 505 feet … just for fun.
Margie Conner, Davey general counsel
and assistant secretary, and her husband,
Bob, along with Jack McCabe, regional
operations manager, and his sons, recently
tackled hiking in both the Half Dome
in Yosemite National Park and Mount
Whitney in Sequoia National Park—and
the highest peak in the contiguous U.S.
"We've all been to Yosemite before,"
Conner says. "But when we met Jack and
his family for dinner in California last year,
we started talking about hiking, and the idea
to do these two extreme day hikes formed."
Although Conner didn't summit either
of those mountains because "it was brutal,
and I would have needed to train more,"
her husband, Jack, and his friends did
each of the climbs in one day. Bob took
between 15 and 16 hours to finish climbing
Mount Whitney.
"I met them coming down the Half
Dome trail," Conner says. "I hiked other
parts of the mountain even though
I couldn't tackle the advanced trails.
I would absolutely recommend visiting
both of these places even if you can't
do extreme hikes."
With these two mountain hikes under
their belts, Conner and her husband hope
to check eight more hikes off the U.S. 10
extreme day hikes list. Next up? Conner
says: "Rim to rim in the Grand Canyon."
The Davey Tree Expert Company
P.O. Box 5193
Kent, Ohio 44240-5193
Margie Conner and her husband Bob
(first and second from left), along
with Jack McCabe (third from left in
back), sons Mason and Kellen (to his
left and right), his wife Renee and
daughter Celena (front), stop for a
photo in front of Half Dome on their
extreme day hiking trip.
