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Perhaps I'm the oddball.

You wouldn't be the first. In fact, I think that's probably a prerequisite for being part of this unique community. crazy

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It probably stems from me not taking myself too seriously - perhaps I should take this a little more seriously.

But then you wouldn't be you. smile

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compared to my 190 pounds (most of it is head).

LMHO!!! (no pun intended)

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That said, when I did summit, I cried at the top. This mountain we walk has a certain draw like no other.

Boy, can I relate to that....

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The eastern sierra is the only place other than Alaska where I have had that sense of overwhelming awe with nature.

I largely feel the same way, but that feeling modified somewhat to include the Alps in Europe and coastal Norway, upon seeing both at different times. Oh, yeah ... and definitely Alaska, too!

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Don't any of us work?

On what? wink

CaT


If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)