Though I’m a US citizen, I’m visiting the US this summer from living and working as an international teacher in Switzerland in the heart of the Swiss Alps. My daughters, Maia and Clara Stark, and I just finished a wonderful 7-day backpacking trip in the San Juan mountains with Tucson friends Robin Kropp and Russ Scott. We hiked from Purgatory to Needleton, then up to NoName Creek and over a...