Manly Men 2005
This was our trip to King's Peak in 2005. We camped in Henry's Fork Basin and hiked around the area before summitting on the third day of the hike.
“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: what is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”
- Rene Daumal
"We were tired and wanted a holiday, so we went off into the woods, out of the way of finery and etiquette, and conventional rubbish, where we should escape from fashionable twaddle, gossips, and flirts--from humbugs and household botheration, and be free to rest and refresh ourselves at leisure. Such an elimination of the ordinary burden of life's occupations would not only leave us free, but make us rich with unheard of wealth of hours, per diem, at our own disposal." - Elizabeth C. Wright ("Into the Woods," in At Home on This Earth: Two Centuries of U.S. Women's Nature Writing, Lorraine Anderson and Thomas S. Edwards, editors)