User:Notary137

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My name is James, and I live in Las Vegas, Nevada. I am a 31 year old computer professional.

Bio
I enjoy reading, music, travel, hiking, and talking about hiking. I hike because I am primarily a tourist, secondarily because it keeps me healthy. I enjoy sharing stories about my hikes: both mishaps and triumphs, and I believe that discovering hiking has changed my life.

I've lived in Las Vegas, Nevada since I was 6 years old, moving from Southern California. My family settled in Utah in the 1850's, migrating to SoCal in the 1920's. I am a product of the Clark County School District, an alumnus of Eldorado High School (Las Vegas). My literary interests include regional history (Nevada, Arizona, and Utah) and extends to popular culture, geography, hiking, and moutain climbing.

I have been absent from Wikipedia for some time now due to other commitments, but will come in from time to time.

Mission
Presently, I am working to provide content for articles on hiking trails that I am familiar with, through research (web, book, periodical) that I do anyway in preparation for hiking them.

In particular, I would like an article I've created (or contributed to heavily) to achieve Featured Article status. At the moment, the article I'm primping and preening to accomplish this is Bright Angel Trail. However, this article may have limited enough appeal to keep it out of FA running, so I suppose I can hope for Good Article status.

I also spend time hunting vandals in the recent changes page, as well reverting vandalism on the pages in my watchlist. I urge any editors to join in to help clean up vandalism.

Templates I've created

 * Template:Grand Canyon trails
 * Template:geolinks-US-trails

Articles I've created

 * List of trails in Grand Canyon National Park
 * North Kaibab Trail
 * Hermit Trail
 * Tonto Trail
 * River Trail (Arizona)
 * Boucher Trail

Stubs I've created
For those who would like to lend a hand :)
 * Cape Final Trail
 * New River Trail
 * Beamer Trail
 * Bill Hall Trail
 * Clear Creek Trail
 * Bright Angel Point Trail
 * Plateau Point Trail
 * Grandview Trail
 * Dripping Springs Trail
 * Cape Royal Trail
 * Tanner Trail
 * South Bass Trail
 * North Bass Trail

Cleanup I've done

 * River Trail (disambiguation)
 * Bass Trail (disambiguation and split)

Articles I've contributed to

 * South Kaibab Trail
 * Bright Angel Trail

Collaberation on hiking trail articles
I am looking for other Wikipedians to help with these articles (see WikiProject Hiking Trails). At present, articles about Grand Canton trails are my main focus. Please let me know on my talk page if you are interested in collaberating on these articles, especially in remote areas of the canyon (a little above my physical fitness level as of 2006!)

Active research

 * Bright Angel Trail
 * South Kaibab Trail
 * North Kaibab Trail