Bruce William Nickerson - Additional Interests

Additional Interests

Nickerson is an avid world-traveler and photographer, having traveled throughout six continents and dozens of countries. He has particularly keen interests in hiking, bridges, and waterfalls. He completed the entire John Muir and Inca Trails in the mid-1990s, completed the Grand Canyon rim-to-river-to-rim hike in 2002, and rafted down the Grand Canyon in 2011 (for his 70th birthday). He has expressed interest in visiting Indonesia (Borobodur) in the next several years. Recently, in January 2010, he successfully completed a trip to central Guyana (to Kaiteur Falls); in September 2010, he traveled to Nanga Parbat's Rupal Face in Pakistan and within 30 km of the Annapurna Sanctuary in Nepal (though had to turn back on the Annapurna Base Camp Trail due to his horse's inability to complete the journey); and in late 2011, he traveled to Manitoba for the annual Polar Bear Migration. His ability to complete these trips largely depends on his continued recovery from a coronary bypass operation and a car accident in May 2009, which affected his left lung. Nickerson is also an accomplished organist, a member of the U.S. National Society of Organists; and enjoys giving classical music concerts in his home which contains a pipe organ. The most recent of these concerts took place in his home in June 2011, with another scheduled for mid-2012.