There Are Many Routes Into the Mountains, Real and Philosophic.
“Some travel into the mountains accompanied by experienced guides who know the best and least dangerous routes by which they arrive at their destination. Still others, inexperienced and untrusting, attempt to make their own routes. Few of these are successful, but occasionally some, by sheer will and luck and grace, do make it. Once there they become more aware than any of the others that there’s no single or fixed number of routes. There are as many routes as there are individual souls.“
Upper Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, MT (Continued fm previous.) At first the Narrator's climb route may be a complete scramble to the ZMM reader. But as we study a topo map and re-read “Chris and Narrator’s climb” (Chapters 16-21), we can begin to see a route that fits rather well the overall clues given. My hypothetical route is indeed a route an experienced mountaineer would choose as a reasonable way to climb “to the snow” with an 11 year old boy. I herby invite (challenge) any and all mountain climbers, hiking clubs, and Bozeman Area Boy Scouts to please check the specified climb route given in the previous captions. Please contact me for more details. Caution: Be sure to tell people or National Forest Service where you are going, so they can come looking for you in case you do not come back at a specific time! Click here for ZMM Bozeman Mountain Climb Hypothetical Trail Descriptions & Topo Map, which opens new browser..
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