Some People Miss Flesh As A Drunkard

Walk Away Quietly In Any Direction And Taste The Freedom Of The Mountaineer.

Oh, These Vast, Calm, Measureless Mountain Days, Inciting At Once To Work And Rest!

What Wonders Lie In Every Mountain Day!

Keep In View The Common Good Of The People For All Time.

Hiking - I Don't Like Either The Word Or The Thing. People Ought To Saunter In The Mountains - Not Hike! Do You Know The Origin Of That Word 'saunter?' It's A Beautiful Word. Away Back In The Middle Ages People Used To Go On Pilgrimages To The Holy Land, And When People In The Villages Through Which They Passed Asked Where They Were Going, They Would Reply, "a La Sainte Terre,' 'to The Holy Land.' And So They Became Known As Sainte-terre-ers Or Saunterers. Now These Mountains Are Our Holy Land, And We Ought To Saunter Through Them Reverently, Not 'hike' Through Them."