Middle Fork Lake, where we often camped
After the Gundelberg phase of my life I continued to
backpack and scramble easy peaks for another several decades. Much of that was done in the Wind River Range
of Wyoming, first with JG/Bob, and later with Thor Hansen. Today (6/10/18) I began to survey and sort my
ancient mountaineering literature; this promises to be a slow process, not
least because everything I find I read and reminisce over. Well, I just found a ratty little guidebook
from the Winds. In it was a note to
myself, dated 1988. It was a list of
stuff not to bother to bring on the next trip - mostly clothing, soap,
toothpaste - stuff like that. At the
bottom of the list I had written, in heavy lettering: BRING MORE RUM!
Even in 1988 I had my priorities straight.
Recall, from July 1991, seeing you had recently signed the summit register on Mount Hooker. And you commented, somewhat disparagingly as I remember it, about your age in that summit note; savor that.
ReplyDeleteWish I could still summit things. Do you know of any peaks with paved paths to the top, suitable for motorized wheelchairs?
DeleteJoin the crowds and drive up Pikes Peak.
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