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Fletcher

Gym climber

A very quiet place

Mar 11, 2014 - 02:11am PT

This thread needs a blessing... methinks this one will do:

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you—beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.

—Edward Abbey

Fletcher

Gym climber

A very quiet place

Mar 11, 2014 - 02:14am PT

Share them with children. Absolutely critical.

donini

Trad climber

Ouray, Colorado

Mar 11, 2014 - 06:50am PT

Sink a tool where no one has sunk one before, sleep on a ledge that has never held the weight of a human, revel in the fact that there are still places on this crowded planet untouched by mankind.

Jaybro

Social climber

Wolf City, Wyoming

Mar 11, 2014 - 09:00am PT

Be,
lose all sense of self and become for a sort time at least, one with it all.

mike m

Trad climber

black hills

Topic Author's Reply - Mar 11, 2014 - 10:09am PT

wake up to 6 inches of fresh and wonder if you can get back down the muddy road you drove up to crash on after traveling most of the day before?

jonnyrig

Trad climber

formerly known as hillrat

Mar 11, 2014 - 10:21am PT

always remember when you do your business- do it downwind and downstream from camp.

survival

Big Wall climber

Terrapin Station

Mar 11, 2014 - 10:21am PT

clickety click, if you can.

jonnyrig

Trad climber

formerly known as hillrat

Mar 11, 2014 - 10:26am PT

boldly go where no man has gone before...
and none will likely follow.

neebee

Social climber

calif/texas

Mar 11, 2014 - 05:18pm PT

hey there, say...

(after preparation) ... be humble, on guard, respect and admire, soak in a good long appreciation as you learn-and-enjoy, and use that treasure to give AWAY and come back for more :)

:)

edit:
wow, i just realized, SOME of that, is what mama critters teach their
youn'in... ;)

course, they might add: learn how to forage, ;))