byย John Nelson, May 2020 The other day was Daleโs birthday. I canโt believe heโd be seventy now. Heโll always be about thirty for us. This morning we listened to Irish music and had sourdough pancakes in his honor. Lisa and I met Dale in about 1978 when we lived next to each other in the two second-story apartments above an […]
Read moreTraveling parts of the Arizona Trail with Dale Remembered by LISA SCHNEBLY-HEIDINGER Dale Shewalterโs dream of the Arizona Trail showed up in an Arizona Daily Star article written by my friend Doug Kreutz in January of 1989.ย I can still picture where I was, at my desk in the back of the KGUN-TV newsroom in Tucson when I called to […]
Read moreRemembered by Phyllis Ralley, Photo by Larry Snead Dale Shewalter once told me a story about how he was backpacking in Ponderosa pine country and hiked past a spot, under a beautiful Ponderosa, that was a perfect place to place his tent. It was still a bit early so he decided to keep hiking to another spot. That night there […]
Read moreby Tom Coulson Dale was very active with the Arizona Trail in the early days when he was healthy. I only got to actually build trail with him one time. It was up near the Northern Terminus in the year 2002. Work crews were finishing up the final tread work a short distance south of the terminus and I was […]
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