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 |
| If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid. |
| ~ Herman Melville (18191891), U.S. author. The Encantadas, Or Enchanted IslandsSketch Eighth: Norfolk Isle and the Chola Widow, The Piazza Tales (1856). ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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