Common sense isn't.
Six of us made it to our first rest stop a couple hundred yards up the trail from the trailhead. The real trail heads to the right from here. An illegal short-cut is seen going straight up the mountain. We're still breathing ok at about 8000 feet elevation at the start.
Mid-way up the mountain, this is a view looking down. Don't take a wrong turn off the trail. It's a long way down!
Here are five of us at (essentially) the top. We're actually about a couple tenths of a mile and a hundred feet elevation from the real top, which is seen behind us.
The sixth, and most determined, member of our team can barely be seen in this telephoto shot of the actual peak.
Don't feed the animals, however friendly, and don't pick the flowers, however pretty.
Quote of the moment |
On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace ... |
~ Eleanor Roosevelt (18841962), U.S. author, speaker, and First Lady. As quoted in Eleanor: The Years Alone, ch. 4, by Joseph P. Lash (1972). From her My Day column, published in the Ladies Home Journal on November 11, 1946. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
Images stored locally for protection of your privacy (unless/until you search with Google). Stomp out web bugs (archive.org).
Copyright © 2000- hal9000[zat]mensetmanus.net
I last touched this page on Saturday, 2007-11-17 at 05:08:47 UTC.