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 |
| Bryan is the least of a liar I know in public life. I have always found him direct and honest, and he never goes back on what he has said to me in private—a rare thing, if found, in public men. I found him purely frank. |
~ William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Butt to his sister-in-law, Clara F. Butt, following a call by Bryan on Taft, April 7, 1910. Archie Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, 2: 610, Doubleday, Doran & Company (1930).
At Bryan’s suggestion, Taft sought world peace by having his secretary of state draft model arbitration treaties with Britain and France. On the other hand, the ferment of progressivism Bryan had seeded in the Democracy stimulated a similar progressivism in Republican insurgents, who opposed Taft on many issues. Bryan pledged to support Taft whenever he advocated the issues he had voiced in his own presidential platform of 1908.
~ |
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.
