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Walking is man’s best medicine.
Hippocrates
The hardest Mountain t climb, the s the one within.
J. Lynn
Life is short…..Play often.
chic 2013
Chicwackin’ is the art of wandering about with a purpose.
chic 2013
The mountain are what we all need
what centers our lives
and calms our souls
strengthens our bodies
and causes awe.
chic 1.1.2023
Where else in Nature
can you see deeply within.
8.2.2023
In Nature one funds inner peace.
In inner peace one finds their way.
And surprisingly
the way back to Nature.
chic 10.27.2024
A path
sometimes goes somewhere,
Sometimes nowhere.
But always
a path leads one to
enlightenment
to peace
to better health.
chic 9.3.2011
In all of man’s wisdom,
the creation of Wilderness
is by far the most significant.
chic 8.4.2011
To hike
is to dance
with Mother Nature.
chic 8.16.2011
Live simply
Love carefully
Exist lightly
Speak well of others.
Play Often
chic 2012
Kindness goes a long way
to those n need.
chic 2012
Wisdom is the knowledge
we find in hindsight.
chic 2012
When we take others into the mountains,
we show them the wonders of wandering.
chic 3.9.2013
When we graduate students from our schools,
we give them a life of wandering.
chic 3.9.2013
Some people come not our lives and quickly go.
Smoke stay for awhile
and leave footprints in our hearts
amd we are never the same.
Unknown
Trail mix is just M&M’s with obstacles.
Unknown
Don’t be afraid to fail.
Be afraid not to try.
Unknown
The best things in life are the people we love,
the places we’ve been,
and the memories we’ve made along the way.
Unknown
It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous,
than absolutely boring.
Unknown
Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.
Aldo Leopold
I hike to burn off the crazy.
Unknown
There's no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.
Unknown
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Unknown
I’d agree with you,
but we’d be both wrong.
Unknown
Dont judge somebody just because they sins are different than yours
Unknown
Dont believe everything you think.
Unknown
Eliminate what doesn’t help you evolve.
Unknown
Ski lifts get me high.
Unknown
Stress is cause by not enough skiing.
Unknown
Never underestimate an old man who loves to ski.
Unknown
Always ask yourself if what you are doing today
is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.
Unknown
Some people need a glue stick instead of Chap Stick.
Unknown
Be like a tree.
The trees give shade
even to him who cuts off its boughs.
Sri Chaitanya
Your mind is a powerful thing,
when you fill it with positive thoughts,
your life will start to change.
Unknown
He is rich who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of Nature.
Socrates
The further we get into the wilderness,
the greater is the attraction you love it’s lonely freedom.
Theodore Roosevelt
Only in America do we accept weather predictions from a rodent,
but deny climate change from scientist.
Unknown
I must be emotionally constipated…..I haven’t given a shit for days.
Unknown
I tried to act normal…..worst 5 minutes of my life.
Unknown
I need a double shot of whatever my kids are on.
Unknown
In life, you have to know when to stop arguing with foolish people.
And just let them be wrong.
Unknown
Duct Tape…..it can’t fix stupid.
But it can muffle the sound.
Unknown
My age doesn’t bother me. It’s the side effects.
Unknown
Oops!…did I roll my eyes out loud?
Unknown
Im not anti-social…..I’m pro-solitude.
Unknown
Im not responsible for what my face does when you talk.
Unknown
Who left the box of idiots open again.
Unknown
Im not saying you are old. But if it were milk, I’d sniff it first.
Unknown
Does your asshole get jealous of the shit that comes out of your mouth?
Unknown
Common sense is like deodorant.
The people that need it most never use it.
Unknown
A hen says, “I poop breakfast.”
“What is your superpower?”
Unknown
One fish says to another while looking at a hook and worm,
”Be careful, it could be an online scam.”
Unknown
I may not be Wonder Woman,
but I can do things that make you wonder.
Unknown
Even a fish can avoid problems, if it keeps it’s mouth shut.
Unknown
Courage is having faith in what you can not see.
Unknown
Do not spoil what you have
by desiring what you have not.
Epicurus
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot
Nature is my anti- depressant.
Unknown
Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Landston Hughes
Sometimes you just need an adventure to cleanse the bitter taste of life from your soul.
Unknown
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confusus
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.
Sue Fitzmaurice
A good friend knows all your stories.
A best friend helps you create them.
Unknown
It does not matter where you are going,
it’s who you have beside you.
Unknown
The goal in life is living in agreement with Nature.
Zeno
The secret beauty of trees,
is their ability to provide us
with oxygen.
chic 1.13.2025
The Earth is what we all have in common.
Wendell Berry
Mother Nature has the best box of crayons.
Unknown
Everyone wants to live on the top of a mountain.
But all hardiness and growth occurs while you are climbing it.
Vincent Van Gogh
The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
Werner Herzog
So this is what a mountain was like, the same as a person the more you know, the less you fear.
Wu Ming-Yi
Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.
Yvon Chouinard
I slow down when I hike.
The rhythm of Nature is more leisurely.
The sun come up.
It moves across the sky , and begins to synchronize to that rhythm.
John Mackey
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.
Paulo Coelho
Mountains are Earth’s undecaying moments.
Nathan Hawthorne
You know you are a true hiker when ‘lost’ means extended sightseeing.
Unknown
The best kind of friend is one who will get lost in the woods with you.
Unknown
With the right friends, every trail becomes a path to laughter.
Unknown
Climbing to the summit is my cardio.
Descending is my victory dance.
Unknown
Sometimes the best therapy is a long hike alone in Nature.
Unknown
Friends who hike together, stay together.
Unknown
The forests are to lungs of the world.
Unknown
Only one who wanders, finds a new trail.
Norwegian Proverb
Wild is my favorite way to be.
Unknown
Remember to look up to the stars, not down at your feet.
Stephen Hawkings
In Nature nothing is perfect, and everything is perfect.
Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,
and they’re still beautiful.
Alice Walker
I’d rather be hiking in the rain,
than sitting inside at my desk on a sunny day.
Unknown
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
Hiking is the answer, who cares what the question is.
Unknown
The worst part of hiking, is leaving the mountains.
chic 2.4.2025
The worst part of hiking,
is walking away from the high lake.
or mountain top you are visiting.
So as you depart, look back in amazement.
chic 3.1.2025
Getting to the top is optional.
Getting down is mandatory.
Ed Viesturs
You can not lower the mountains, therefor we must elevate ourselves.
Todd Skinner
The summit is what drives us,
but the climb is what matters.
Conrad Anker
The more you know, the less you need.
Yvon Choinard
Mountains have a way of dealing with our confidence.
Herman Bulh
If happiness is the goal—and it should be, then adventure should be the top priority.
Richard Branson
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills
Stop following others and create your own path in life
Dani Jay.
My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather,
to have less to do.
Francine Jay
Sometime you just need an adventure
to cleanse the bitter taste of life from your soul.
Unknown
You can visit the same trail twice,
but never take the same hike.
Unknown
There is nothing wrong having a tree as a friend.
Unknown
It feels better to do stuff,
than to have stuff.
James Wallman
Let Nature nurture your soul.
Unknown
Only if you have been in the deepest valley,
can you ever know how magnificent it is
to be on the highest mountain.
Richard M. Nixon
Wander often…..wonder always.
Unknown
Think outside——no box required.
Unknown
Watch more sunsets than Netflix.
Unknown
Wilderness holds answers to questions not yet ask.
Nancy Newhall
Sky above,
earth below,
PEACE within.
Unknown
Let your heart
be your compass.
Unknown
Life should have more mountains
and less stress.
Unknown
The Earth is a fine place,
and worthy of fight for.
Ernest Hemingway
Nature offers some of the worlds purest
and simplest joys.
Unknown
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
E. B. White
For most of history, man has had to fight Nature to survive.
In this century he is beginning to realize that,
in order to survive, he must protect it.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The desire to be well informed is currently
at odds with my desire to maintain sanity.
Unknown
All the beauty of life, is made up of light and shadow.
Leo Tolstoy
Some of the best advice you will ever hear,
will come from the forest.
Dasha Avelin
Wilderness is not a luxury, but necessary of the human spirit.
Edward Abbey
The richest person is not the one who has most,
but the one who needs the least.
Unknown
I LOVE a place where there are crowds of trees.
Nitin Namdeo
Fresh air and muddy boots make everything better.
Unknown
The closer you are to Nature,
the further you are from stress.
ilmylunajane
It is impossible to walk in the woods and be in a bad mood at the same time.
Unknown
Getting lost is not a waste of time.
Unknown
The human spirit needs places where Nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.
Unknown
I am never lost in the mountains,
it is where I found myself.
Lee Hiller
The most important day in your life are the days you were born, and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain
LIFE…….The best view comes after the hardest climb.
Unknown
Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventure.
Unknown
Its easy to stand in a crowd,
but it takes courage to stand alone.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is not what you look at that matters,
its what you see.
H.D. Thoreau
Not all classrooms have four walls.
Unknown
Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
Unknown
The fears we don’t face, become our limits.
Robert Sharma
Kindness is like snow…it beautifies everything it covers.
Kahill Gibran
Someone is sitting in the shade today,
because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett
If you think you’ve peaked,
find a new mountain.
Unknown
To plant a seed, is to believe in tomorrow.
Unknown
If you choose not to find joy in the snow,
you will have less joy in your life,
but still the same amount of snow.
Unknown
Some just see snow,
some just see cold.
I see beauty.
Unknown
You are not the darkness you endure.
You are the light that refuses to surrender.
John Mark Green.
Little girls with dreams,
become women with vision.
Unknown
Some people age like fine wine.
I aged like milk.
I got sour and crunchy.
Unknown
The best way to help yourself,
is to put your arms around another.
NCIS
Family isn’t always blood.
It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs.
The ones who accept you for who you are,
and I LOVE YOU no matter what.
Unknown
When you see something beautiful in someone, tell them.
It may take a second to say, but fir them it could last a lifetime.
Unknown
Worry is like a rocking chair,
it gives you something to do,
but gets you nowhere.
Dennis 101
I’ve reached the age, when my train of thought,
often leaves the station without me.
Unknown
I seriously need a speed bump between my brain and my mouth.
Unknown
How to find out if you are old.
Fall down.
If people laugh, you are young.
If people panic, you are old.
Unknown
Never let fear speak louder, than your dreams.
Unknown
If you are going through hell, keep moving.
Winston Churchill
Walking: the most ancient exercise.
and still the best modern exercise.
Carrie Latet
I have two doctors,
my right leg and my left leg.
G.M. Trevelyn
Carry as little as possible,
but choose that little, with care.
Earl Shaffer
Sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world.
Bear
Grow through what you go thru.
Indigo Palms
There is always an adventure waiting in the woods.
Karlon S. Bolas
The world reveals self to those who travel on foot.
Werner Herzog
Jobs fill your pockets,
adventure fills your soul.
Jamie Lyn Beatty
There’s no such thing as too much air.
Unknown
Life is better in hiking boots.
Uknown
I like being near the top of a mountain,
one can’t get lost there.
Wislawa Szmborska
Nature does not hurry, yet everything gets done.
Loa Tzu
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
Groucho Marx
A leader is one that knows the way,
goes the way,
and shows the way.
John C Maxwell
Problems are not stop signs.
They are guidelines
Robert H. Schuller
It is not what you look at that matters,
It’s what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
Life is not a problem to be solved,
but rather a reality to be solved experienced.
Unknown
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money often costs too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not length of life,
but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An investment in knowledge, pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
By failing to prepare,
you are preparing to fail.
Ben Franklin
Well done is better than well said.
Ben Franklin
History is a vast early warning system.
Mark Twain
Sports do not build character.
They reveal it.
Heywood Broun
The only true wisdom
is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it in practice.
Anton Chekhov
The quality,
not the longevity,
of one’s life is what’s important.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Wandering the mountains takes us on a path thru our souls.
While a path thru our souls, takes us to new heights.
New heights expand our love of wandering
chic 7.29.2011
Education is important, but skiing is importanter.
Uknown
Don’t grow up…..it’s a trap.
Uknown
A therapist told me:
”Learn to calm your own storm,
instead of venting to other people.
It sounds therapeutic to let it all out,
but you are reinforcing your negative thoughts.
it is no-one’s job but your own
to pull you out of your own shit.
Journal, mediate, exercise, and release.
And then it all makes sense.
Unknown
We are drowning in information
while starving for wisdom.
Unknown
I don’t know how to act my age,
I've never been this age before.
Unknown
DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU THINK.
Unknown
Dear Brain,
Please shut up!
Unknown
Listen and Silent,
are spelled with the same letters.
Think about it!
Unknown
Don’t judge someone just because they sin differently than you.
Unknown
I’d agree with you,
but then we both would be wrong.
Unknown
I love the sound you make,
when you shut up.
Unknown
Weird is a side effect of awesome.
Unknown
Children of Winter, never grow old.
Unknown
Just keep skiing faster and faster,
eventually the thrill of speed
will over come
the fear of death.
Unknown
The first rule in skiing powder is….
Don’t be late.
Unknown
Given the typical life span of a pair of skis…
and the typical life span of skiers…..
all skis are rock skis.
Unknown
Skiing is expensive,
but it’s cheaper than therapy.
Unknown
A person should have wings to carry them, where their dreams go.
But sometimes a pair of skis make a good substitute.
Unknown
When you die, you are blissfully unaware that you are dead,
it’s the people around you that are distraught.
The same happens when you are stupid.
Unknown
Skiing is more than a sport.
It’s a way of life.
Unknown
It Is Not What You Gather, But What You Scatter That Tells What Kind Of A Life You Have Had.
Dennis T Croughwell, from FaceBook
Take a moment in your busy day to connect to Nature’s healing ways.
Unknown
The dirtier the feet, the happier the heart.
Unknown
We can not become what we want to be by remaining what we are.
Max Pree
The artists see what others only catch a glimpse of.
Leonardo Da Vinci
I walked the path of the ancient ones…Nature is my church.
Unknown
Wonder….is the beginning of wisdom.
Socrates
Raise your words
not your voices.
Unknown
It is rain that grows flowers,
Not thunder.
Romi
I asked a wise man, “Tell me sir, in which field could I make a career?”
He said with a smile, “ Be a good human being, there are a lot of opportunity in this area and very little competition.
Unknown
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said.
People will forget what you did, but will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelo
Learning is not a race for information, it’s a walk of discovery.
Unknown
The human spirit needs places where Nature has not been rearranged by the hands of man.
Unknown
A wise man once said nothing.
Unknown
Some days a child will ask what a forest was like and why they are gone.
Unknown
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends,
but always get you the right ones.
John Lennon
Even though there are days I wish I could change some things that happened in the past, there are reasons the rear view mirrors is so small and the windshield is so big.
Where you’re headed is much more important than what you’ve left behind.
Unknown
Strong people don’t put others down.
They lift them up.
Unknown
Beautiful feelings happen in your life, when you distance yourself from all the negative things.
Unknown
You are a gift of Nature….BEHAVE.
Unknown
Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
“There is nothing more beautiful than a person who loves every step they take.”
Arielle Johnson, past this along to me. It is a quote her father says.
It’s not the years in your life that count.
It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
Adopt the pace of Nature;
her secret is patients.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
They stood here once, as we do-
facing the unknown
with courage and desire.
For beyond the horizon are new roads
greater tasks, nobler deeds.
The trail to our future is challenging
But always, when blazing it
we will remember.
Unknown
Ps…..I’m still a lot, floating on my dreams, of skiing yesterday at Silver Mt.
Or as I often explain…..An orgasm on sticks.
chic 2.12.2024
The worse thing about carrying out your TP is carrying out someone else's.
Sawtooth Wilderness Ranger
Not ever adventure is for a cause,
but there’s always a cause for adventure.
A Cause For Adventure Crew
Don't worry when you are not recognized.
But strive to be worthy of recognition.
Abe Lincoln
Adopt the pace of Nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are born, many men
but leave as one.
NCIS QUOTE
In Wilderness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Throueau
Of all the paths you take in life,
make sure a few of are dirt.
John Muir
You can never conquer the mountains.
You can only conquer yourself.
Jim Whittaker
The troubles of modern life
comes from being
divorced from Nature.
Isaac Asimov
Storms make trees
take deeper roots.
Dolly Parton
Off line
is the new Peace of mind.
Unknown
Memories in the mountains
stay in your heart forever.
Unknown
Some days
you just have to
create your own sunshine.
Unknown
Wherever you are,
be all there.
Jim Elliot
Collect moments.
Not things.
Unknown
Sometimes the little things in life
are more than enough.
Delores Cannon
Be the reason
someone believes
in the goodness
of people.
Unknown
Fill your life with adventure, not things.
Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.
Unknown
The best news
comes after the hardest climb.
Unknown
Skiing is the best way in the world to waste time.
Glen Plake
Skiing is expensive but its cheaper than therapy.
Unknown
You can't buy happiness
but you can buy a ski pass.
Unknown
Turn off the news,
go outside,
breathe, you were never meant
to carry the burden of the entire world.
Unknown
When you choose to collect experiences rather than things,
you never ever run out of storage space.
Joshua Becker
One of the best gift you can give someone,
is thanking them
for being part of your life.
Unknown
Capacity,
audacity,
and tenacity
will take you to your mountaintop.
Unknown
Knowing when to walk away, is wisdom.
Being able to, is courage.
Walking away with your head held high
is dignity.
Unknown
Its better to look ahead and prepare,
than to look back and regret.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Success is not final,
failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue
that counts.
Sir Winston Churchill
My drug of choice,
is white powder.
Unknown
Laugh
Love
Ski.
Unknown
Snow boarding
is an activity
that is very popular
with people
who do not feel that
regular skiing is lethal enough.
Unknown
Spending time in Nature is healing energy.
REIKI
May your time in Nature
lead to yourself.
Shikoba
The sun shines not on us but in us.
John Muir
Blessed are the courious
for they shall
have adventure.
Unknown
Ben Franklin once said….
”Some people are weatherwise,
some are otherwise".
Don't worry when you are not recognized,
but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Abe Lincoln
“Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day”.
Sally Koch
Choose only one master--Nature.
Rembrandt
“If you are working on something that you really care about,
you don’t have to be pushed.
The vision pulls you”.
Steve Jobs
Summer friends will melt away like summer snow,
but winter friends are friends forever.
Unknown
If we save our wild places,
we ultimately save ourselves.
Steve Irwin
THE earth does not belong to us;
we belong to the Earth.
Chief Seattle
Whenever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
If I resist a nap,
is that
resisting a rest?
Unknown
On 4.2.1973 Motorola employee Martin Cooper made the first public mobile telephone call on a Manhattan sidewalk, to Joel Engel of Bell Labs.
Cooper later told the BBC that his first words were, “Joel, I’m calling you from a ‘real’ cellular telephone a portable hand held telephone”.
Unknown
“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity.
Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Go out on a limb….that’s where the fruit is”.
Will Rogers
Come to the woods, for here is rest.
There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.
John Muir
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
Albert Einstein
The Earth has music
for those who listen.
William Shakespeare
“To reconnect with Nature is key if we want to save the planet”.
Jane Goodall
To live a creative life,
we must loose our fear
of being wrong.
Joseph Clinton Pearce
“So, if we lie to our government it’s a felony.
But if they lie to us, it’s politics”.
Bill Murray
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ONCE SAID:
"IF YOU FAIL TO PLAN, YOU ARE PLANNING TO FAIL."
“We learned from History,
that we never learned from History”.
Georg Hegel
“Challenges are a gift that forces us to search for a new center of gravity.
Don’t fight them.
Just find a new way to stand”.
Oprah Winfrey
”Nature is too big for humans to influence.”
This was stated by Colin N. Water in the 1920’s about our environment.
Mark Twain said this about New England weather…..
”If you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute”.
“In this odd business of mountaineering, a large number of unpleasant moments somehow combine to create an experience in which is wholly delightful”.
Arnold Lunn
A WALK IN THE FOREST
As I walk in the forest my mind is free
I can smell fresh air and scented pines.
My eye catches the wonderful beauty
of sunlight dancing thru the trees
and the bright flowers of unknown colors.
As I listen, see, and smell,
I can see little animals in the trees
and birds perched on tree limbs
looking awkwardly down at me.
Everything in the forest has its own way
of being enjoyable.
Anita Jakob, age 11
excerpt from the Spokane Mountaineers 1970 Peak and Valleys
“Only where you have walked have you been”.
Purcell Wilderness Conservancy
"No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session."
Dan Evans, Past Washington Governor
“If you can find a path
with no obstacles
it probably doesn’t lead anywhere”.
Frank Clark
“….the most luxuriant and most extravagantly beauty of all the alpine gardens I ever beheld in all my mountain top wandering.”
John Muir, conservationist, 1889
Cats always look like they’re
“not mad just disappointed."
@ElllaZee5
“If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest,
Then I will have to live with this shame”.
Tensing Norqay
“Why are mountains always tired?
Because they don’t ever-rest!”
“The beauty of nature has been of the great inspiration of ones life.”
Jim Henson
“Ambition is the path to success.
Persistence is the vehicle you arrive on.”
Bill Bradley
“The man who doesn’t know what he wants is already there”.
Bernard Kopczynski, Chris Kopczynski’s father
Have you heard of "Mind over matter".
If you don't mind, it doesn’t matter.
Mark Twain
“No one is more hated
then he who tells
the truth.”
Plato
I think god gave us children,
so death wouldn’t be so disappointing.
Holland Taylor, aka Evelyn Harper,
Two and a Half Men
There are no bad people,
just uneducated people”
Unknown
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” --
John Muir
There are no rules for a good picture, just good pictures.
Ansel Adams
“Mountains help me navigate what is most important to me. They balance the chaos that is regular life. Balance is what I strive to accomplish with climbing a balance of life, love and the mountains. Alpine climbing is a life-long commitment. I live and breathe it.”
Jess Roskelley
Age
is a question
of mind
over matter.
If
you don’t mind
it doesn’t matter.
With great power, there must also come great responsibility.
Stan Lee, Amazing Fantasy #15, 1962
What is life,
but the accumulating of...
the knowledge to live a descent life...
the desire to leave this life with integrity...
but to acquire as many fond memories as possible...
with images of ones life as a testimony...
a few, better then good friends...
and don’t forget the sounds of music...
or laughter to warm the heart...
Unknown
ONE GALLON OF WATER WILL PRODUCE THREE BILLION SNOWFLAKES.
STORMRISC, S-R.
How much water evaporates from the earth’s surface each year?
Approximately 102,000 cubic miles.
Stormrisc, S-R
If there's no snow (or rain) falling from the sky and you’re not in a cloud, then the temperature decreases by about 5.4°F for every 1,000 feet up you go in elevation.
However, if you’re in a cloud, or it is snowing/raining, the temperature decreases by about 3.3°F for every 1,000 feet up you go in elevation.
Thus meaning it’s a change of 6°C per 1,000 meters.
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good
for an unhealthy but otherwise healthy adult
than all the medicine and psychology
in the world.
Paul Dudley White
A cartoon in the 2.28.2019 S.R
Two large trees were talking, when one said, “ You have a bad rash on your back!”
To which, the larger of the two replies, “I told you! Its not a rash!
It’s a Trail Marker!”
Mark Parisi
My computer said I had to change my password.
I entered “beef stew”
My computer said “Sorry password not stroganoff.”
Unknown
My wife has a really odd way of starting a conversation.
She always begins by saying,
“Hey, are you listening?”
Unknown
The fastest way to call a family meeting, is to simply turn off the WiFi router and wait in the room it is located.
Unknown
I once tooted in an elevator. It was wrong on so many levels.
Unknown
A young boy goes to his dad and says,
“Dad did you know in some countries you don’t know who your wife is until you get married.”
The dad replies,
“its like that everywhere, son.”
Unknown
We do not rise to the level of our expectations.
We fall to the level of our training.
Archilochus
Carl Sandburg said,
“Time is the coin of your life.”
“It is the only coin you have,
and only you can determine
how it is spent.”
“Be careful
lest other people spend
it for you.”
Aug., 20, 2019 Spokesman- Review comics
I miss the big waves.
But I love the mountain more!
chic. 8.6.2019
Not all who wander, are lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Somewhere in all of us is the power to change the world.”
Roald Dahl
The conspiracy of inaction.
In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The famous photographer, Ansel Adams once said:
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government
to save our environment.”
Part of the urge to explore is the desire to get lost.
Tracey Johnston
The future depends on what you do today.
Gandhi
A landscape of white, blankets my view.
The trees are flocked, as if they are new.
chic 12.28.2018
“Few things are as satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.”
Doug Larson
The German word "knappen" means "to eat" and a knappensack was a sack holding things to eat: a knapsack.
Unknown
"The great thing about getting old is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."
Madeleine L'Engle
"I thought growing old would take longer."
Sandy Tarbox
A king can stand people fighting,
but he can't last long if people start thinking.
Will Rogers
Apropo for today's political climate.
World renowned photographer Ansel Adams observed:
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government
to save our environment.
Ansel Adams 3.6.2017
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and our government when it deserves it."
Benjamin Franklin
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
(Like Donald J. Trump maybe)
Anton Chekhov Russian Playwright
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Apropo for today's political climate.
Adlai Stevenson
We don’t stop playing
because we grow old;
we grow old because
we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations."
Eric Arthur Blair. aka , George Orwell
There is nothing wrong with America that can not be cured by what is right with America."
William J. Clinton
" Just because the dog likes your cooking doesn't mean you're a good cook.
She likes toilet water, too."
Unknown Cartoonist
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
Rosa Parks
Father to son, "Jeffy...never lie, cheat, or steal." "That's the Governments job."
Life's challenges can be devastating.
chic 4.1.2017
Friendship
A challenge to ones psyche.
An emotional roller coaster.
A great joy.
Incredible times.
Turmoil.
Fun.
A feeling of awe.
A sadness at times.
But always worth the effort.
chic 4.1.2017
Obama is the only person to look worse after quitting cigarettes.
S.N.L.Skit. 7.2.2017
A Democrat is a Republican,
that spent a night in jail.
KSPS
Everybody has a plan,
Until they get hit in the face.
Mike Tyson
If time is infinite,
why is there never enough of it?
John Deere ad november, 2017
We must believe in luck,
For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like"
Jean Cocteau
Did you know I can cut down a dead tree by just looking at it?
It's true. I saw it with my own eyes.
Unknown
What is every trees least favorite month?
SepTIMMMBERRR,
Unknown
The purpose of life is to live it,
to taste experience to the utmost,
to reach out eagerly and without fear
for newer and richer experiences.
Eleanor Roosevelt
"If wining isn't everything,
why do they keep score.
Vince Lombardi
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones
"The secret to staying young is to live honestly,
eat slowly, and lie about your age,
Lucille Ball
"You've reached old age when the gleam in your eye is just the sun on your bifocals."
Henny Youngman
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore
"Half of our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."
Will Rogers
"' A Little knowledge is a dangerous thing.'
That is why so many persons don't fool with it."
Dan Kidney
Signs you are really broke:
American Express calls and says:
"Leave home without it!"
Unknown
A blonde bought an AM radio.
It has taken her a month to find out she could listen to it at night.
Unknown
What do you get when you add media to democracy?
Mediocracy!
Unknown
"If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth,
inventor of the television,
we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners."
Johnny Carson
"Truth is violated by falsehood,
but it is outraged by silence.
Henri-Frederic Amiel
French poet & Philosopher
Life is like a roll of toilet paper:
the closer you get to the end,
the faster it goes.
Unknown
The Possum Lodge Man's Prayer
"I'm a man
but I can change
if I have to
I guess.
Red Green,
Canadian Comedian
"There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many,
controlled by the few."
Lawrence Lessig
"Few things are as satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
Doug Larson
Q. How much water is needed to produce 12 inches of snow per 1 square mile?
A. Over 17 million gallons.
Spokesman-Review Weathers
"If you wore bell-bottom pants, tie-dyes cloths and danced the boogie woogie,
why would you be embarrassed to get a colonoscopy?"
Deaconess cafeteria .
"Indeed, no storm can be more violent than those of a waterfall in the midst of which he delights to dwell."
John Muir
(The Ouzel is the only aquatic songbird.)
"I keep putting off the first day of the rest of my life."
Thaves. 3.9.2018
A cardiologist walks into a motorcycle repair shop.
The mechanic says, "Hey doc, come over here. I want to show you something."
The heart Doctor walks over to the mechanic.
The mechanic says, "I completely rebuilt this motor. Why is it that I get the small bucks and you get all the big bucks."
The doctor says, "Try doing that with the motor running."
Don Drapeau
Did you know that when you wonder, you're learning?
Fred Rogers
A trail takes me away to a place where I can be free.
To wonder the mountains to see all they hold.
To look out onto the land, and feel its presence brings PEACE.
chic 8.25.2017
On Mother's Day, 2018 a commercial said this.
If Motherhood was easy, men could do it.
“Don’t sit around doing nothing.
Get up and do something.”
Ida Keeling
103 Year Old Marathoner
“ Can’t Nothing Bring Me Down” Book
As important as these opportunities are, it is also critical that we have places “to hear ourselves think,” away from the growing clamor of the planet. “In wildness is the preservation of the world,” wrote Henry Thoreau.
It is just as true today as when he penned that nearly 200 years ago.
Henry David Thorea
“Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone.”
Neale Donald Walsch
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Upon signing the National Wild and Scenic River Act, and the National Trail System Act of 1968.
Sagittarius 1: November 22 - December 21
Independent and strong-willed, Sagittarius personalities are all about going off the beaten path. Sagittarius is open-hearted, generous, big-spirited and painfully honest.
10.2018 From the Friends of Scotchman Peaks.
There will be times,
when you have to walk alone.
This is where,
you will find,
your own truth.
The Lemonade Lady
It’s wise to arrive a little late in this world,
then to arrive early in the next.
Peruvian Proverb
FOG
Obviously, it’s no fun to ski in.
But to see the snow rimmed trees,
drifting in and out of its grey,
is like a revisioning it’s beauty,
time and time again.
chic 12.25.2018
As Christmas on the slopes of Silver Mountain, draws to a close, I hope our nation rises from our President’s insanity, to shine
in all its greatness.
chic. 12.25.2018
A landscape of white, blankets my view.
The trees are flocked, as if they are new.
chic. 12.28.2018
I am most in awe
of the Sub-Alpine Fir.
chic. 12.28.2018
Success in life is simply a ratio
of what you could have done
to what
you actually did.
Pickles by Brian Crane, comic strip 2.23.2020
Sometimes Mother Nature has the answers when you do not even know the questions.
Keith Wynn
In retirement.
it seems I am busier
then when
I worked.
chic
Leading people is the most challenging and therefore, the most gratifying undertaking of all human endeavors.
Jocko Willink
The thing about hiking is that you can’t avoid the present tense for very long.
Suzanne Roberts, Spokane Mountaineers
Love many, trust few, but always paddle your own canoe.
English Adage
A man can be wise and keep a secret.
But it’s the wise man that doesn’t have to keep
a secret.
8.2020. G. Calin. Chris O’Donnell, NCIS LA
"A leader takes people where they want to go.
A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go,
but ought to be there."
Rosalyn Carter
"We all have our time machines.
Some take us back; they're called emotions.
Some take us forward; they're called dreams."
Jeremy Irons
A Democrat is a Republican,
that spent a night in jail.
"The people of these United States are the rightful master of both Congresses and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
Abraham Lincoln
The average person uses one 100 foot tall Douglas Fir each year in paper goods alone.
Unknown
Experience is the thing you have left when everything else is gone.
Unknown
How can there be self-help groups?
Unknown
REMEMBER: You don't stop laughing because you are old.
You grow old because you stop laughing.
Unknown
"If fingers have fingernails....shouldn't thumbs have thumbtacks?"
dennis the menace. 11.2017
“Don’t sit around doing nothing.
Get up and do something.”
Ida Keeling
103 Year Old Marathoner
“ Can’t Nothing Bring Me Down” Book
As important as these opportunities are, it is also critical that we have places “to hear ourselves think,” away from the growing clamor of the planet. “In wildness is the preservation of the world,” wrote Henry Thoreau. It is just as true today as when he penned that nearly 200 years ago.
Henry David Thorea
“Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone.”
Unknown
The noisy babble of a stream crossing the trail,
made me pause to enjoy a sound
I hadn't heard in months.
Chic 1.5.2015
There is a high.
A high that comes
from being in the mountains.
If you'd never been there,
you are missing out.
Go to the mountains.
Experience nature's high.
chic 8.12.2014
When I write.
I put myself out there.
Expose my soul.
Hope that I inform.
Desiring to inspire.
But don't quote me on that.
chic 8.12.2014
When the Seven Sisters came into view,
all white and proud,
my thots turned to skiing.
My hopes are for a decent year,
my dreams are much deeper.
chic 11.5.2015
Sex,
as exciting
and arousing as it is,
can not
compare to a day of powder skiing.
WHAT you ask?
Does your sex last all day?
chic 3.5.2016
The power of the excitement,
of cranking down thru powder,
is simply too addictive to stop.
chic 3.5.2016
Any day adrift on the water,
bobbing and coasting gently
with the waves, is one that
calms the soul and allows one
to reflect.
chic
My heart is saddened.
My soul is damaged.
My self, is in turmoil.
Can we survive?
I think not.
chic. 6.7.2016.
Where will it all end?
Where will the nation turn?
Why must we be so ignorant?
Why don't we think?
What will we do?
What will become of us?
Too bad we haven't used
common sense.
Not even once.
chic 6.7.2016
The Environment of Our Earth
We use it.
We neglect it.
We ignore it.
We treat it as renewable.
We pollute it.
We rape it.
We ravage it.
When will we learn?
chic 6.7.2016
We have learned from History,
that we haven’t learned from History
COMMON SENSE
That is beyond comprehension.
A phrase that means so much to those who care.
A phrase that politicians and governing agencies fear.
A phrase that could save us.
A phrase that means so much.
Yet it's a phrase we need to utilize in all of life.
chic 6.7.2016
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
(Like Donald J. Trump maybe)
Anton Chekhov Russian Playwright
Spring,
Summer,
and Fall,
as nice as they are,
are simply fillers
between ski seasons.
chic 4.19.2017
A New Years resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.
My computer said I had to change my password.
I entered “beef stew”
My computer said “Sorry password not stroganoff.”
No one is more hated
then he who tells
the truth.
Plato
“There are no bad people,
just uneducated people”.
Jim Whitaker
To travel,
to experience
and learn:
That is to live.
Tenzing Norgay
Walking is a man's best medicine.
Hippocrates
The Earth has music
for those who listen.
George Santayaana
If you can find a path
with no obstacles,
it probably doesn't
lead anywhere.
Frank A. Clark
The journey of a thousand miles
begins with a single step.
Loa Tzu
I go to Nature
to be soothed
and healed,
and to have my
senses put together.
John Burroughs
Perhaps the truth
depends on a walk
around a lake.
Jeff Alessandrelli
Leave the road,
take the trails.
Pythagoras
Theres a whole world out there,
right outside your window.
You'd be a fool
to miss it.
Charlotte Eriksson
I am not lost,
I"m exploring.
Jana Stanfield
Nature is not a place to visit,
it is home.
Gary Snyder
Adopt the pace of Nature.
Her secret is patients.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is the source
of all true knowledge.
Leonardo da Vinci
The goal in life
is living in agreement
with Nature.
Zeno
Time spent amongst trees
is never a waist of time.
Katrina Mayer
Always be on the lookout
for the presence of wonder.
E. B. WShite
There is no Wi-FI in the forest,
but I promise you will find
a better connection.
Ralph Smart
"We don't inherit the Earth
from out ancestors,
we borrow it from our children".
Chief Seattle
Where flowers bloom, so does hope.
Lady Bird Johnson
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
Dolly Parton
I think having land
and not ruining it
is the most beautiful art
that anyone could ever want.
Andy Warhol
Sunsets are proof
that endings
can often be beautiful, too.
Beau Taplin
Spring is Natures way of saying,
Let"s Party.
Robin Williams
We still don"t
one thousandth of one percent
of what has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein
Study Nature,
love Nature,
stay close to Nature.
It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe in God,
only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Choose only one master...Nature.
Rembrandt
Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot,
the only home we've ever known.
Carl Sagan
The Earth has music
for those who listen.
William Shakespeare
A weed is no more
than a flower in Disguise.
James Russell Lowell
Although we say mountains belong to the country,
actually, they belong to those that love them.
Dogen
The riches I achieve come from Nature,
the source of my inspiration
Claude Monet
Life sucks a lot less
when you add mountain air,
a campfire
and some peace and quiet.
Brooke Hampton
If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature,
There's something wrong with you.
Alex Trebek
Those whom find beauty
in all of Nature
will find themselves
at one
with the secrets of life itself.
L. Wolfe Gilbert
My father considered
a walk amongst the mountains
as the equivalent
of churchgoing.
Aldous Huxley
Where ever you go,
no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D"Angelo
Some people walk in the rain,
others just get wet.
Roger Miller
Nature is the purest portal
to inner peace.
Josiah Soto