 Pigeon
Mountain
- Canadian Rockies
Well this was my
first new peak since the attack on America.
The original
objective was a Columbola Allan traverse, but I was in such a rush
to get out the door, I forgot to check the route description.
I also missed an
important call. It came just 15 minutes after I had left. I wanted
my friend to come along and had called her the night before.
The plane into the
building thing could not have come at a worse time. I was exhausted
from all the mountains and my unorthodox neo-vegetarian ways and I
didn't even know it.
I also think I was
starving to death. There is such a thing as a diet and then there is
just going to fast with it. (no pun intended)
This particular day
had me out on the mountain alone. It was the first time solo in a
long time and I felt very lonely. I missed my friend.
Looking back I am happy
to have walked up Pigeon Mountain though, it was a nice day and was
extreme peace the likes of which I hadn't felt for some time. The
peace though was tempered with a bit of trepidation. Little did I know that the exploding plane thing was just the beginning. A few weeks later, I was smoldering too.
But I shouldn't complain, what I went through was sheer heaven compared to what happened to those poor folks in New York. GOD BLESS them, and may they all rest in peace. The same goes for anyone who is a victim of violence. Amen.
OK the mountain......
On the way up, you
must walk along a power cut line and the trail sometimes winds into
the forest, but you can also stay on the line proper.
Eventually you get to
an unsigned junction, your only clue is a pile of rocks and a dead
tree pointing the way.
The summit is a big
grassy thing and unless you know where you are going you're likely to
end up on a subsidiary speak to the east. No big deal though, it's just
a pleasant hike to the main summit.
I conducted a brown
study until some people walked up and asked "are you alone up
here" to which I replied "yes until you got here...ha
ha".
 he
popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of
a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which
nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled
symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of
wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm
us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces
are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge
victorious.
David
Mamet
1947-, American Playwright
 uppose
that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for
freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the
meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who
engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes,
behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who
tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.
Noam Chomsky
1928-, American Linguist, Political Activist
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