
Calgary Malmon Hikers
by Edwin Acuña


Over the past years Brod DVM Benjon 
Barachina (UPLB’92) has been hiking trails in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta 
Province west of Calgary. It has become his regular regimen sort to speak once 
spring has set in, continuing into the summer months.
Last June 11, Brod Benjon (in green shirt) was joined by Brods Rex Almonte 
(UPLB’95, in red shirt), and Edwin Acuña (UPD’76) for a two hour hike from the 
starting point to the Jumpingpound Summit in Kananaskis Country, some 75 
kilometers west of Calgary.
Hiking, aside from the beneficial impact it gives our bodies, unites us with 
nature. We are part of nature. 






“Walking is a man’s best medicine.” – Hippocrates