 Cascade
Mountain
- Canadian Rockies
If you're wondering
why the content of this page keeps changing, my editor killed the
page and I had to resurrect an older version from a backup. Same
thing with my Mount Cory page.
The first attempt I
made on this peak failed. My partner for the day Officer Rob Davidson of the Calgary Police Service had a knee injury that
we
thought would be OK. About half way up the mountain, the knee was
hurting.
I told him I had no problem going back down; "Cascade isn't
going any where" I said. Rob is a determined individual, but
when pain talks we get lame walks. It just isn't worth a chronic
injury to push that hard.
July20/ 01
The next attempt was with Ann, eight days after we summited Mount
Cory. About half way up I experienced some dizziness
and a heart palpitation. This was my first adrenalin rush of the
season, and not the last.
I sat down, drank some fluids, then continued to the summit. The rush was spawned by a look over a sharp crest.
In
lousy shape, I was pushing hard and so the adrenalin was more than my straining heart
could take. It lost it's rhythm and blood flow to my brain was
compromised for a moment.
Some people also talk of tunnel vision, this is a sign of pushing
too hard.
As for the Mountain;
my whole life, every time
I passed through Banff, I always looked up at the pyramid of Cascade Mountain with awe. Now
on the summit, it was a special moment in a special place.
When we got back to
Ann's truck, She Mumbled something about Superman. I
was very flattered, but on that day it was obviously a wee exaggeration. However,
one can always aspire to great heights, can't one? I must fly!
Cascade is a
wonderful mountain, the object of many an artist. I've noticed
however that none have captured the mountain from the Bow Valley.
They all seem to derive their perspective from each other. I'm going
to set my tripod just below the falls some morning, looking up at
the looming mountain from an inferior perspective, cowering under
it's massive girth. And then I will go conquer it again, as fast as I can.
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 he mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
Basil Bunting
1900-1985, British Poet
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