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Show Monday, November DAILY 2009 9, HERALD A3 Milk Close-u- p Continued fromAl Continued from Al X'X '4; P., more than 16 years ago after his third back surgery, when his doctor suggested that some activity would help to rehabilitate his back, Each month he would set out to hike the loop with a 3,000-foelevation gain. The goal became 100 consecutive months. When he .0 reached that, it became 200. And now he's hoping for 222, which would be August when vr'.he'll be 80. His daughter, Lisa Rollins, came up with him eight years ago to celebrate his 100th and has been tagging along ever since. "He's drug me along," she said. "Nope," replies Humpherys. "She's kept me going." But Humpherys doesn't need too much motivation from others. Most of the time anyone else who offers to hike with him gets left in his dust. He is in such great shape, actually, that his son, Kerry, 47, of Orem, started training in June for the celebratory 200th hike. "Even after hiking all summer he can still do it faster than ASHLEY FRANSCELLDaily Herald I can," Kerry said. DeVerl Humpherys laughs after realizing that he forgot his walking stick a few hundred yards behind. Humpherys celebrated his It takes Humpherys about 200th consecutive monthly hike to the summit to Y Mountain on Oct. 24. three hours to complete the hike, 20 minutes more than his time from 16 years ago. wildflower; each time they see "No one thought he'd make it to No. 200. Most 25 rounds of radiation treatWaiting for them at the top is the previous hike's number ment he still managed something they've never noother have a hard time to make it up to the summit ev- ticed before. arranged in the rocks. In the The trail can also offer some few short minutes that Rollins ery month. getting to the groceiy store and here "It hasn't always been easy Once he ran into a reaches the summit before her surprises. he is going for le hikes." s bear nearly father she changes the last digit up the getting up there," he said. "But we've always managed to do it mountain. Another time he saw to reflect that day's hike and Kerry Humpherys, then she takes a picture of her cougar tracks in the dirt. despite these things." DeVerl Humpherys's son Neither deterred him, though, Once he hiked to the summit father and the number for a in spite of immense pain in his from going up again the next scrapbook. month. back from his sciatic nerve. It To stay in shape he walks "No one thought he'd make it took him twice as long as it norIn the eight years of hiking several times a week whether Rollins, an to No. 200," Kerry said. "Most hikes ahead of her father, it's from his home near mally does but he didn't break together the father and daughother have a hard Timpview to Squaw Peak breaking the trail. Even though ter duo have become incredibly his streak. "I made it up but I couldn't time getting to the grocery Road or the Y Mountain trail they've hiked the trail so many close. Their monthly three-hou- r hike lets them talk everything walk until the next month," he store and here he is going for or an occasional excursion to times, when it's covered in hikes." Southern Utah with friends Snow they end up taking the out.'. laughed. "I went through some really And Humpherys has no ineasiest way up, which someand family. He's always doing Humpherys could probably hike the trail with his eyes tention of stopping. At least not hard times and it was great times means going straight up something. for another 22 months. the side of the mountain. closed, but he prefers not to. bonding time," Rollins said. During the winter months ... She wasn't the only one, "The trail changes every duo strap the "Hiking is something he's alThey often don't see the hike month and each time it's a difnumber for five to six months on snowshoes and trek their though, who overcame tough ways done," Kerry said. "Probin the winter when it is buried ferent hike," he said. Every times. Humpherys battled prossummit ably will keep doing it until the way to the 8,566-foo- t month there is a different under several feet of snow. tate cancer in 2002. In between day he dies." through several feet of snow. some youngsters won't drink regular milk and won't get its nutrients, the ads say. The "Raise your hand for chocolate milk" campaign starts Monday with an ad in USA Today featuring chocolatey brown colors and the launch of a Web site that asks people to sign a petition declaring their support for chocolate milk in school But some educators and obesity experts say kids get essential enough calcium for bone growth and will drink white milk if it's the only milk offered. They say kids get too much sugar, which is heightening America's obesity problem, and schools shouldn't serve chocolate milk at all. The idea behind the campaign is to draw a distinction between chocolate milk and the soda and candy that have come under attack in schools, said Vivien Godfrey, CEO of the Milk Processor Education Program, the industry marketing group that developed the campaign with the National Dairy Council. Godfrey said the effort will cost between $500,000 and $1 million. 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