Pic Descriptions:1. Looking back up The Cross (Mt Tallac).
2. Looking back up the main gut of The Cross
3. Lily milking the end of the gut (untouched!?!)
4. Lily loving the gut
5. Lily tip-toeing through the first crux (which I ripped out after her....whoops!!).....solid 50+ deg!!
We had horrible visibility the whole climb, then the mountain gods smiled and the sun came out just in time to rip the uber classic Cross......thanks mountain gods!!
What amazing sights. John Muir, who kept a journal attached to his belt as he hiked and climbed mountains, referred to the body as a "flesh and bone tabernacle."
ReplyDeleteHere's a taste, letting you know that his words from 1869 are still blessedly true for those of you who have eyes to take in such vistas:
"We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun--a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal..."
I love that your life is so full.