"God Has a special Providence for Fools, drunks, and the United States of America." -Otto Von Bismarck
Woo-hoo! I meet all three!
"You know your camping trip really isn't going well when you find yourself hoping to stave off sepsis with a six-pack of Icehouse. "
"Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin."
From my then 11 year old:
"Dad, why is it that when a woman can't hear a man, he's mumbling, and when a man can't hear a woman, he's not paying attention?"
My wife was not amused. I later pulled the boy aside and explained to him about the value of discretion and knowing one's audience.
Carpet Diem! (Seize the Berber)
Better yet:
Carpe diem, seize the day! ~Horace
K2 Able to leap small twigs with a single bound.
I did it. I said I’ll do it, and I’ve done it. [after she summited Katahdin] –EMMA ‘GRANDMA’ GATEWOOD
Seen in the Glacier Peak Wilderness on the PCT:Originally Posted by mountain squid
“Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.”
-Richard Kemph
Ironic huh?
“The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.” -- Henry Rollins
" It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave." -- Edward Abbey
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ad astra per aspera
If you pick 'em up, O Lord, I'll put 'em down. ~Author Unknown, "Prayer of the Tired Walker"
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
"Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen." Louis L’Amour
whoops...fixed.
For a couple of bucks, get a weird haircut and waste your life away Bryan Adams....
Hammock hangs are where you go into the woods to meet men you've only known on the internet so you can sit around a campfire to swap sewing tips and recipes. - sargevining on HF
"Do not go where the path may lead
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail"
Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Another good Emerson quote: A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
-Edward Abbey
"I feel more like I do today than I did yesterday"
The Captain
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ~Steven Wright
“Only two things are infinite; The universe and human stupidity,
And I’m starting to wonder about the universe.”
Albert Einstein
"Not all who wander are lost"
- J.R.R. Tolkien
perrito
684.4 down, 1507.6 to go.
"If a man speaks in the woods, and there is no woman there to hear, is he still wrong?"
Why would you worry about spending a weekend with someone whose language you don't speak?
I've lived for 25 years with someone who speaks Woman!
-I think I'll let him remain anonymous
“Only two things are infinite; The universe and human stupidity,
And I’m starting to wonder about the universe.”
Albert Einstein
20' was the absolute max btw, not sure if that was the popular option unless you're freaking 13th century Shaq
"Our lives. . .need relief where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams." --Henry David Thoreau
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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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