that's me in the middle QuetzalCoatl Male, 37 years old Seattle, Washington, United States Power = 42 (Vote Weight = 64.93%) Loading... Occupation: dutifully employed A Few Words: These are my selected peak-bagging highlights by elevation group: 5000 METERS Citlaltépetl 2006 4000 METERS Tahoma 1998, 2009 Shasta 2009 Malintzin 1998, 2006 3000 METERS Koma Kulshan 2009 Wy-East 1997 Dahkobed 1999 Pah-to 1996 Lassen Peak 2008 2000 METERS LuWit 1995, 1999 Mazama 2008 Teofani 2006 Queest Alb 1999 Huayna Picchu 1995 1000 METERS Kaleetan Peak 2009 Mount Angeles 2008 Mt. Washington 2007 Kimta Peak 2000 The person whom I have found most eloquently reflects my thoughts on the mountains was Theodore Winthrop, who visited the great NW in the 1850s and wrote about his adventure in Clallam & Clatsop, aka Saddle & Canoe. On the true names of the Cascade volcanoes: "Farthest away in the west, as near the western sea as mountains can stand, are the Cascades. Sailors can descry their landmark summits firmer than cloud, a hundred miles away. [Koma] Kulshan, misnamed Mount Baker by the vulgar, is their northernmost buttress up to 49º... Its name I got from the Lummi tribe at its base, after I had dipped in their pot at a boiled-salmon feast. As to Baker, than name should be forgotten. Mountains should not be insulted by being named after undistinguished bipedals, nor by the prefix of Mount. Mt. Chimborazo... seems as feeble as Mr. Julius Cesar." On the allure of the mountains in general: Poet comes long after pioneer. Mountains have been waiting...while mankind looked upon them as high, cold, dreary, crushing, as resorts for demons and homes of desolating storms. It is only lately, in the development of men's compreshension of nature, that mountains have been recognized as our noblest friends, our most exalting and inspiring comrades, our grandest embems of divine power and divine peace. On the joy of long or far away wilderness trips: "To have started with the dawn is a proud and exhilerating recollection all the day long... Tame and inarticulate is the harmony of a day that has not known the delicious preludes of dawn." Send QuetzalCoatl a Private Message (PM) Member Since Dec 5, 2008, Last Active: Dec 7, 2009 Total Hits: 6277

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