Clark Fork
10-07-2004, 02:22
In the book, The Maine Woods, Henry David Thoreau makes this comment:
"Ktaadn, whose name is an Indian word signifying highest land, was first ascended by white men in 1804."
If that is so, this years marks 200 years of reaching the summit by at least the non native population. It seems to me that is cause for celebration or at least some parenthetical mention in the trail journals completed this year that include the trip to Katahdin summit....
Regards,
Clark Fork in Western Montana
“The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains,--their tops are sacred and mysterious tracts never visited by them. Pomola is always angry with those who climb to the summit of Ktaadn.” From “The Maine Woods” Henry David Thoreau, August-September 1846
"Ktaadn, whose name is an Indian word signifying highest land, was first ascended by white men in 1804."
If that is so, this years marks 200 years of reaching the summit by at least the non native population. It seems to me that is cause for celebration or at least some parenthetical mention in the trail journals completed this year that include the trip to Katahdin summit....
Regards,
Clark Fork in Western Montana
“The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains,--their tops are sacred and mysterious tracts never visited by them. Pomola is always angry with those who climb to the summit of Ktaadn.” From “The Maine Woods” Henry David Thoreau, August-September 1846