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 |
Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country through terror and pity; and may fulfillment verify in the end those expectations which kindle the bards of Progress and Humanity. |
~ Herman Melville (18191891), U.S. author. Supplement. Battle-Pieces (1866), p. 467, Collected Poems of Herman Melville, ed. Howard P. Vincent (1947). A retrospective consideration of the Civil War. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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