Recollections of a Rocky Mountain Ranger Quotes

“On life and peaks it is the same. With strength we win the grail, but courage is the thing we need to face the downward trail.”
― Jacob Clifford Moomaw, Recollections of a Rocky Mountain Ranger

“...it was vowed that there would never be a charge made for entering said Park. It was a gentleman's agreement. But most of the gentlemen eventually died.”
― Jacob Clifford Moomaw, Recollections of a Rocky Mountain Ranger

“On the bus was an old lady from Boston, and when she learned what I was going to do, she was horrified and indignant about me going out into that awful wilderness alone....I tried to explain to her that I would be far more afraid to wander around Boston or New York alone than to hike over Trail Ridge.”
― Jacob Clifford Moomaw, Recollections of a Rocky Mountain Ranger