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 |
| When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress in favor of amending the Constitution to give women the suffrage than to praise me endlessly! |
| ~ Susan B. Anthony (18201906), U.S. suffragist. As quoted in Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, vol. 3, ch. 70, by Ida Husted Harper (1908). After listening to a long stream of politicians congratulatory letters read aloud at a celebration of her eighty- sixth birthday held in Washington, D.C., on February 15, 1906. Despite her entreaties, President Theodore Roosevelt had not actively supported extension of the vote to women. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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