This guy drove 2000 miles to hike up to Desolation Peak
Look at his photos and then read his story at the end. Very cool.
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Jul 28, 2013 06:09AM
REALLY cool--especially the return of the sunglasses... Now I want to do that myself. Five miles, almost vertical, huh? No problem--I can butch it up a few notches :). (Funny--yesterday I was thinking that if I could buy any car I wanted, it would probably be a vintage Mustang--red, of course). And I still haven't actually read Desolation Angels--just J.K.'s journal about it.
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Yeah I agree: it would be well worth the exertion. I'd have to be in better shape than I am now but that's doable. Funny how '66 and '67 Mustangs used to be the cars kids at school often inherited from their parents and now they're rare enough to turn my head. When you do read Desolation Angels it will blow your mind, but you already knew that. Ha.
I'll just finish getting fully conversant in the laws of physics and then I'll get to it (actually, I'd better not wait THAT long).
Nancy wrote: "I'll just finish getting fully conversant in the laws of physics and then I'll get to it (actually, I'd better not wait THAT long)."Nice. Sounds like a plan! Ha!
Okay. We'll race for the top. I'll start saving up for a red '67 Mustang and try to learn some physics. I'll have a slight edge on you two because I'll be leaving from the Void.
Oh, fine. Just fine. Go ahead and pull the old "leaving from the Void" one-upsmanship, RK-ique. Honestly--rubbing our noses in it. (Actually, I'm pretty sure that even my dog has at least a slight edge on me as far as physics is concerned.)
Living in the Void is part of Canadian identity. We have no Revolution, no Civil War, no George Washington, no Abraham Lincoln...not even a Betsy Ross (our flag was chosen by a committee). Let us bask in our void.
Fine--bask away. Canada seems to be a very nice Void.
Between the Void and Nancy's educated canine I feel suddenly like an underdog. Or whatever is below that. The under-underdog.
Robert wrote: "Between the Void and Nancy's educated canine I feel suddenly like an underdog. Or whatever is below that. The under-underdog."Actually, that's a position that we here in the Void have tried to lay claim to but given that Nancy has described us as "very nice", we'll let you have it Robert. And sorry for being presumptuous by claiming it in the first place.
On the Desolation theme, I recently found some of my old pay slips from when I lived alone in the mountains working for the B.C. Forest Service in 1978. They paid me $4.00 an hour to go fight a fire. Half that for being on stand-by. All that money and nowhere to spend it.
That is very cool! One of those framed with a picture of your lookout/cabin would look good on the wall! Speaking of interesting stories about B.C. forests, have either of you read The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed? Interesting story on a number of different levels.
