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QUOTES

Mountain Pique: Alpine climbers rope them selves together not because there is safety in numbers, but to keep the doubtful ones from changing their minds.

   A quote in the Spokane Mountaineers quarterly trip publication, in 1967

Depression can’t hit a moving object.

Unknown, but told to me by Tai Herath, Thank You.

If you could kick the person the pants responsible for most of your troubles, you couldn’t sit down for a month.

   Theodore Roosevelt

When you do a good job, people notice.
If they don't ...you do.

   Unknown

Don’t shrink yourself to fit into places where you weren’t meant to be.

   Unknown

The outside world only sees the most dramatic events, rather than all the work that proceeded it.

   James Clear

Maybe the clouds and the trees and the flowers love looking at you too.

   Unknown

Be kind to the trees, they’re busy saving the world.

   Unknown

You were born with the potential to do anything.
Choose to be brave.

   Unknown

You can’t separate peace from freedom,
because no one can be at peace
unless they have their freedom.

Unknown

Without rain, nothing grows.
Learn to embrace the storms of your life.

   Power of Positivity. (PoP)

One of the best lessons in life,
is to master how to remain calm.

   Thoughts Wonder. (TW)

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny compared to the what lies within.

   Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do good for others.
It will come back in unexpected ways.

   Unknown

Observation is the greatest source of wisdom.

   Unknown

Anything that costs you your peace,
is to expensive….learn to let go.

   Unknown

When I look out over a forest, I see peace.
While some just see dollar signs.

chic 11.12.2025

No one who loves the woods, stay on the path.

Nellie Florence

Don’t let the fear of losing, be greater than the excitement of winning.

   Robert Kiyosaki

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

   Rumi

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.

John Barrmote

Eyes are useless,
when the mind,
is blind.

   Unknown

No, no, I’m listening, it just takes me some time to process so much stupidity all at once.

Unknown

Your futures doctors are using ChatGPT to pass medical school.
you better start eating healthier.

   Unknown

He who follows the herd…..
only sees assholes.

   Unknown

There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path.
Don’t allow yourself to become one of them.

Ralph Marston

Sitting above a high mountain lake, and watching the winds ruffle the waters, shows me Nature’s beauty.

chic 11.12.2025

Don't wait, the time will never be just right.

   Napoleon Hill

Trees are our closest relative.
What a tree exhales, we breath;
What we exhale, they inhale.
They are half our respiratory system.

   Jaggi Vasudev

Be careful when you follow the masses.
Sometimes the M is silent.

   Unknown

Growth is skipping over the things, you used to trip over.

Healing Hearts

If you feel like you’re losing everything, remember that trees lose their leaves every year, and they still stand tall and wait for a better day to come.

   Unknown

The biggest wall you’ve got to climb, is the one in your old mind.

   Roy T. Bennet

I Googled my symptoms and it turns out, I just need to sit by a fire in the middle of the mountains.

   Unknown

I may not have gone where I intended to go.
But I think I have ended where I needed to be.

   PoP

Be proud of surviving what you don’t talk about.

   PoP

Peace is not the absence of noise,
it’s the absence of chaos.

   PoP

Spend time with people who are good for your mental health.

   PoP

Quality is not an act, it’s a habit.

   Aristotle

Never allow overthinking to brew a storm in your soul.

   Unknown

Learn to appreciation what you have,
before time make you appreciate what you had.

The Gift Book

The six best doctors….
sunshine
water
rest
air
exercise
and diet.

The Gift Book

Dont let the path, keep you from experiencing Nature.
She will show you the way, and that way is UP.

   chic 11.12.2025

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

   White Robins of Peace

When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a to chance to you catch you.

   Lolly Daskal

Dont wait to hike a trail.
But know it’s always there waiting for you.

   chic 11.12.2025

Everything you’ve ever wanted,
is on the other side of fear.

   George Addair

The only way to achieve the impossible,
is to believe it is possible.

   Charles Kingleigh

The best way to predict the future, is to invent it.

   Alan Kay

Im at an age where my mind still thinks I’m 29, my humor suggests I’m 12, while my body mostly keeps asking me are sure I’m not dead yet.

   Ink

You are confused only by the walls you build yourself.

   Andre

Whether you think you can,
or you think you can’t,
you're right.

   Henry Ford

A males a domestic animal which if trained with firmness, can be trained to do almost anything.

   Jill Cooper

A man’s nature determines his fate.

   Lionel Terray

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

   Soren Kekegarrd

Life is short, it’s up to you to make it sweet.

   Sarah Louise

Rise above the storm, and you will find sunshine.

   William S. Burroughs

A man who dares to waste one hour of time, has not discovered the value of life.

   Charles Darwin

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Anna D. Smith

Keep your face towards your goal.
but always look back,
to see what you’ve accomplished.

   chic 11.12.2025

Success is not final,
failure is not final:
it is the courage to continue
that counts.

   Unknown

Wishing you could get there,
is not the same as working to get there.

   chic 11.12.2025

I love the forest.
it is the place
where you hear
yourself better.

Fahadh Faask

Every hike you do today, do it with the confidence,
of a 5 year old in a Superman costume.

   chic 11.12.2025

Aspire to inspire
before you retire.

   Eugene Bell Jr.

Be a warrior,
not a worrier.

Unknown

In order to insult me, I must first value your opinion….
Nice try though!

   Unknown

Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing,
you will be successful.

   Albert Schweitzer

If you’ve never hike a trail,
you will never know you can.

   chic 12..12.2025

Let each trail surprise you.

   chic 11.12.2025

Great things never come from comfort.

   Ray T. Bennett

Silence speaks when worry doesn’t.

   Unknown

Time heals, silence teaches.

   Unknown

True friends are rare gems.

   Unknown

Remember, just because you went to college,
doesn’t make you smarter than anyone else.
Common sense does not come with a degree.

   Unknown

He who does not understand why we hike,
doesn’t understand Nature.

   chic 11.12.2025

Setting goals is the first step
into turning the invisible
into the visible.

Tony Robbins

There are plenty of difficult obstacles along a path.
Do not let your doubts be one of them.

   chic 11.12.2025

Don’t count the days,
make the days count.

Mohammad Ali

Idolizing a politician
is like believing
the stripper really likes you.

   Unknown

He is rich who is content with the least
for content is the wealth of Nature.

Unknown

The only true wisdom
is knowing
you know nothing.

   Unknown

Sometimes life will test you, but remember this;
when you walk up a mountain, your legs get stronger.

   Tia Johnson

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Unknown

The only good vision is knowledge,
and the only evil is ignorance

Socrates

If you want to succeed
you should strike out
on a new path,
rather than travel the worn path
of accepting success.

   John D. Rockefeller

Behind you
are all your memories.
Before you
  all you dreams
Around you
   all who love you.
Within you
   all your needs.

   Unknown

You were born an original.
Dont be a copy.

   John Mason

Nonchalance is the ability to look like an owl,
when you acted like a jackass.

   Unknown This was printed in the 1967 Spokane Mountaineers Kinnikinnick.

Dont resent growing old.
Many people are denied the privilege.

Unknown

The trouble with having an open mind is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

   Terry Pratchett

Go as far in life as you can dream, and when you get there, you will be able to go farther.

   Unknown

People who want by the yard but try by the inch should be kicked by the foot

   Unknown

Let’s exchange problems.
Everyone knows how to solve the other fellow’s best.

Unknown

When you feel worthless, remember you were once the quickest sperm cell.

   Unknown

This is what it’s all about, in my opinion; we believe that man must live with Nature, not against it; we must use Nature, but not destroy it; and very often it is the highest use of Nature is for man’s spirit, not his pocketbook.

   Brock Evans
Washington’s Governor, 1967

Die with memories,
not dreams.

   Unknown

Why take the high road,
when you can take the psycho-path.

   Unknown

So it turns out being an adult is mostly just Googling how to do stuff.

   Ink

I finally stopped drinking for good!
Now I drink for evil.

   Unknown

Being cremated is my last hope for a smoking hot body.

   Unknown

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

   Gandhi

No one has ever found themselves,
without being a little lost.

   Sai Praseed

When things go wrong, don’t go with them.

   Elvis Presley

A friend is one that knows you, and loves you at the same time.

   Elbert Hubbard

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

   C.S. Lewis

Always do your best. What you plant now you will harvest later.

   Og Mandino

You only live once, but if you do it tight, once is enough.

   Mae West

Tact is the art of making a point, without making an enemy.

   Isaac Newton

Where do bad rainbows go?
To prism.
Its a light sentence
but it gives them time
to reflect.

   Unknown

Its weird being the same age as old people.

   GoodLivingGuide

Exercise makes you look better naked.
So does wine.
Your Chooce.

unknown

The closer you are to Nature,
the further you are from idiots.

Unknown

You may not like your workout,
but you’ll love having worked out.

Shoshone County Medical Center Gym

You don’t have to be great,
to get started, but you have to
get started to be great.

   Adrian Weasley

Indeed no storm can be more violent than those of a waterfall in the midst of which he delights to dwell.

   John Muir
He is speaking of the American Ouzel, the only aquatic songbird
   Also known as a Dipper.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

   Suzi Kassem

Strong people don't put others down.
They lift them up.

   Unknown

It is better to look ahead and prepare, than look back and regret.

   Jacki Joyner-Kersee

Hope is the last thing ever lost.

   Italian Proverb

Dont let the ugly in others
destroy the beauty in you.

   Unknown

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

   Anne Deavere Smith

Some beautiful paths can be discovered, without getting lost.

Errol Ozan

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression, as one’s deeds.

   Henrik Ibsen

One day your life will flash before your eyes.
Make sure it is worth watching.

   Geral Way

Life is like a box of chocolates.
you never know what your going to get.

   Forrest Gump

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

   Will Durant, Historian

Never regret a day in your life:
Good days give happiness,
Bad days give us lessons,
And best days give memories.

Unknown

I don't believe you have to be better than everyone else.
I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

Kevin Venturi

Trust your journey, your speed doesn’t matter, forward is forward.

   Unknown

Wrinkles are just antique smiles.

   Mark Twain

Ive reached an age
where my train of thot
often leaves the station without me.

   Unknown

If you don’t take an interest in the affairs of our government , then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

   Plato

There’s nothing like the shine in a guy’s eyes, when he is talking about himself.

Unknown

Where else in Nature can you see so deeply within.

chic 8.2.2023

A day in Nature is a lifetime of memories.

   chic 12.7.2024

There is a beauty in wandering.

   chic 10.27.2024

To wander, sets us free.

   chic 10.27.2024

To be in Nature, is one f the most powerful emotions we can ever have.
When our breathing becomes rapid, and our eyes smile from seeing it’s beauty,
Nature is within us.

chic 12.9.2024

Kindness is the highest form of intelligence.

   Wayne Teasdale

If buying stuff hasn’t made you happy,
maybe getting rid of it will.

Unknown

I see your IQ test came back negative.

Unknown

Only ones who wanders, find new paths.

   Norwegian Proverb

Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire,
and some peace and quiet.

   Brooke Hampton

It it doesn’t challenge you,
it won’t change you.

   Unknown

No person or job is worth your mental health.

   ProjectForgive

Smart people that like good health,
spend several hours outdoors daily in the shade of trees.

   Steven Magee

It feels good to be lost in the right direction.

   Unknown

The world reveals itself to those who travel by foot.

Werner Herzog

We don't stop hiking because we grow old,
we grow old because we stop hiking.

Finis Mitchell

After a days walk, everything has twice its usual value.

   G.M.Trevelyan

If happiness is the goal, and it should be,
then adventure should be your top priority.

   Richard Branson

Mountains have a way of dealing with over confidence.

   Nemann Buhl

Each fresh peak ascended, teaches something.

   John Muir

Walking is the most ancient exercise,
and still the best modern exercise.

   Carrie Latet

The meaning if life is to give it away.

   William Shakespeare

Its better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

   PoP

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are, and change the ending.

   C. S. Lewis

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

   Nelson Mandela

What consumes your mind, controls your life.

   Arnold Bennett

The less you carry, the more you will see.
The less you spend the more you will experience.

   Unknown

In tramping you are not earning a living,
but earning a happiness.
There is perhaps no greater test of friendship,
than going out on a long tramp.
You discover to one another all the egoisms
and selfless you possess.

   Stephen Graham

Disobedience is the true form of Liberty.

   Henry David Thoreau

We live in a fast society.
Walking slows us down.

   Robert Sweegall

The best remedy for a short temper,
is a long walk.

   Jacqueline Schiff

Some time you just need to change your altitude.

   Unknown

There is no greater wealth in this world
than peace of mind.

   Treasures of Wisdom

Find awe where the mountains meet the sky.

   Unknown

You do not find happiness. You make it.

   Camilla Eyring

Nothing is impossible.
The word itself says I'm possible.

   Audrey Hepburn

Be not afraid of going slow,
be afraid only of standing still.

   Chinese Proverb

The only impossible journey, is the one you never begin.

   Tony Robbins

Even though you are growing up,
you should never stop having fun.

Nina Dobrev

Our greatest glory is not ever falling,
but in rising every time you fall

   Confucius

Nothing can dim a light which shines within

   Maya Angelo

All progress takes place outside your comfort zone.

   Michael John Bobak

We all have two lives,
the second begins when you
realize you only have one.

Unknown

They laugh at me because I'm different.
I laugh at them because they are all the same.

   The Joker

A mans true wealth, is the good he does in the world.

Kahill Gibran

Don't let yesterday, take up too much of today.

   Will Rogers

Bring a compass, it's awkward when you have to eat your friends.

   Unknown

DEET is Natures cologne.

   Everyhiker

Winners are not people who never fail,
but people who never quit.

   Unknown

What you’re looking for is not there, it is within you.

   Unknown

An active mind excites the body.
An excited body activates the mind,
It’s the active life.

   Greg Evans
   Mrs. Horner, Luann comic strip.

Experience is what you get
when you don’t get what you want.

   Tori Filler

You can’t change the cards you were dealt,
just the way you play the hand.

Unknown

Sorry I’m late, I got here as soon as I wanted to.

   Unknown

If there is no struggle, there’s no progress.

   Fredrick Douglas

If you get tired….learn to rest, not quit.

   Unknown

Leadership is not being in charge.
It’s about taking care of those in your charge.

   Simon Sinek

Clutter is just a museum of $hit you thought would make you happy.

   Unknown

We never know the worth of water, til the well is dry.

Unknown

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

   Henry David

Water is the driver in Nature.

   Leonardo da Vinci

Stupidity knows no boundaries, but it knows a lot of people.

   Unknown

There is no lousy weather, only lousy clothing.

Unknown

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
Do things at your own pace.
Life is not a race.

   Unknown

If you felt down yesterday……Stand up today.

   Unknown

The best preparation for good work tomorrow….
is to do good work today.

Unknown

The fact that jellyfish have survived for 660 million years despite not having a brain, gives hope to many people.

   Unknown

A group of people are called a, “no thank you”.

   Unknown

If speaking to plants helps them grow…imagine what being humans can do.

   Unknown

If you want to find yourself, play hide and seek, alone.

Unknown

Your normal day
is someone’s dream.
So be thankful, everyday.

   Unknown

I can see it's going to be a rope, duct tape, and a shovel kinda day.

   Unknown

I don't insult people,
I discribe them.

   Unknown

I'm not saying you're stupid.
I just think you have bad luck
when it comes to thinking.

   Unknown

Guard against the imposters,
of pretend patriotism.

   George Washington

You can not treat people like garbage,
and worship God at the same time.

   Unknown

Be strong, but not rude,
be kind, bur not to bully;
be humble but not timid;
be proud, but nor arrogant.

   Unknown

If someone treats you like crap, just remember,
there is something wrong with them, not you.
Normal people don’t go around destroying
other human beings.

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Courage is not having the strength to go on,
Its going on when you don't have the strength.

   Theodore Roosevelt

I'm single and been on the market so long.
I'm about to go on clearance

   Unknown

I will not have my buttons pushed by nasty people,
Their nastiness is their issue.
Their words say more about them than me.

   Unknown

You have brains in your head
and feet in your shoes,
you can steer yourself in any way you choose.

   Dr. Seuss

Yes. Im old school.
I have good manners,
I show respect.
and I will always help those who need me.
Its not because I'm old fashion.
It’s because I was raised properly.

   Unknown

Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish,
by its ability to climb a tree.
It will live its whole life,
believing it is stupid.

   Albert Einstein

The biggest tragedy, is that we get old too soon, and wise too late.

   Benjamin Franklin

Never be a prisoner of your past.
It was just a lesson,
not a life sentence.

   Unknown

If you don't leave your past in the past,
it will destroy your future.
Live for what today has to offer,
not what yesterday has taken away.

Unknown

Don't confuse my personality with my attitude.
My personality is who I am,
and my attitude depends on who you are.

   Unknown

Knowing others intelligence;
knowing yourself ;
mastering yourself is true power.

   Loa Tzu

In the stillness of the trees, I am home.

   Wendel Berry

What I stand for is what I stand on.

   Wendel Berry

Not all classrooms have four walls.

   Unknown

In the wilderness, my soul strums to the rhythm of pure bliss.

   Angie Weiland-Crosby

Hugs were invented to let people know,
you love them without having to say anything.

   FreeSpirit

Nature has always been and will always be, the best medicine.

Unknown. (Crystal Lovers Tribe)

Mother Earth does not speak in words,
but in visions, feelings, and light.

   Unknown

Natures never goes out of style.

   Unknown

Once you realize that Earth and heart,
have the same letters, it all starts to make sense.

   Unknown

Life is like a camera.
just focus on what's important,
capture the good times.
Develop from the negative,
and if things don't turn out...
Just take another shot.

   Unknown

There are no shortcuts to any place, worth going.

   Beverly Sills

Sunshine is delicious,
rain is refreshing,
winds brace us up,
snow is exhilarating;
There is really no such thing as bad weather,
only different kinds of good weather.

   John Ruskin

From little seed grow mighty trees.

   Unknown

Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud.

   Maya Angelo

I hope I never forget, how to do nothing.

   Unknown

The most effective kind of education
is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

   Plato

There is nothing wrong
with having a trees as friend.

   Bob Ross

Time is not refundable,
use it with intention.

   Unknown

When a flashlight goes dim or quits working,
you don't throw it away, you change the batteries.
When a person messes up and finds themselves in a dark place,
Do you cast them aside?
Of course not, you help them change the batteries!
Some need AA...attention and affection;
Some need AAA. attention, affection and acceptance;
Some need C..compassion;
Some need D...direction.
And if they still don't shine....
simply sit with them quietly and share your light.

Unknown

Walking is man’s best medicine.

   Hippocrates

The hardest Mountain to climb, is the one within.

   J. Lynn

Only a life lived for others, is a life worth while.

   Albert Einstein

Its okay if some people dislike you.
Not everybody has good taste.

   Unknown

The smallest act of kindness is writhing more than the greatest intention.

Kahlil Giban

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

   George Elion

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

   Ashley Montago

Life is short…..Play often.

   chic 2013

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

   Oprah Winfrey

Turn your wounds into wisdoms.

   Oprah Winfrey

Be the reason someone,
believes in the goodness of people.

   Unknown

You are your choices.

   Seneca

You must do the things, you can not do.

   Eleanore Roosevelt

Chicwackin’ is the art of wandering about with or without 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 so deeply within.

chic 8.2.2023

In Nature one finds inner peace.
In inner peace one finds their way.
And surprisingly the way,
is 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

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass.
Its about learning how to dance in the rain.
   Charles Schultz

Rise above the storm, and you will find sunshine.

   Mario Fernandez

In all of man’s wisdom,
the creation of Wilderness
is by far the most significant.

   chic 8.4.2011

The meaning of life is to find your gift.
The purpose of life is to give it away.

   William Shakespeare

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 in need.

   chic 2012

Wisdom is the knowledge
we find in hindsight.

chic 2012

Some moments do not need photos to be remembered forever.

   Charles Schultz

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

Do not listen with the intent to reply, but with the intention to understand.

   Unknown

Be happy with the little you have.
There are some with nothing,
who still manage to smile.

   Charles Schultz

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some stay for awhile
and leave footprints in our hearts
and 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

I came. I saw, I forgot what I was doing,
retraced my steps, got lost on my way back.
And know I have to pee.

   Unknown

I’m only responsible for what I say, not for what you understand.

   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

A wise man never knows all,
only fools know everything.

   African Proverb

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

Learning how to be calm when you are disrespected, is a supper power.

   Unknown

No matter how big a hammer you use.
you can’t pound common sense into stupid people.

   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

I am not impressed by money, by social status, or job titles.
I am impressed by the way someone treats other human beings.

   Unknown

Stress is cause by not enough skiing.

Unknown

Never underestimate an old man who loves to ski.

Unknown

Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody.

   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

Nothing ever goes away,
until it tells us,
what we need to know.

   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

Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.

   Unknown

Helping one person might not change you, but it could change the world for one person.

   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

Worrying won’t stop the bad stuff from happening.
It just stops you from enjoying the good.

   Unknown

Everyone has a chapter,
they don’t want read out loud.

   Unknown

I asked myself if I was crazy, and we all said no.

Unknown

No amount of evidence, will ever persuade an idiot.

   Mark Twain

Owls remind us that wisdom comes from observing in silence.

   Unknown

Nature is the reset button we all need.

   Unknown

The deer isn’t crossing the road…
the road is crossing the forest.

   Unknown

Birds are Natures musicians, and there concert are free.

   MyDayMyWay

So many people inspire me to be nothing like them.

   Unknown

The body heals with play,
the mind heals with laughter,
and the spirit heals with you.

   Unknown

Kindness is not an act ,
its a reflection of your soul.

   ThoughtsWonder

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

The difference between a stumbling block, and a stepping stone ,
is how high you raise your foot.

   Benny Lewis

Your best teacher,
is your last mistake.

   Unknown

Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventure.

   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

The fears we don’t face, become our limits.

   Robin Sharma

Does your asshole get jealous of the shit that comes out of your mouth?

   Unknown

Those who find the beauty in all of Nature,
will find themselves at one with the forest of life itself.

   L. Wolfe Gilbert

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

Any lesson you refuse to learn, will repeat until you do.

   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

I am not a product of my circumstances, I’m a product of my decisions.

   Stephen Covey

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

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

   Albert Einstein

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

LISTEN & SILENTS, are spelled with the same letters.

   Unknown

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

If you don’t leave your past in the past, it will destroy your future.
Live for what today has to offer, not for what yesterday has taken away.

Unknown

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 mountain 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 one who angers you, controls you.
Never give anyone that power over you.

   Unknown

The summit is what drives us,
but the climb is what matters.

   Conrad Anker

The more you know, the less you need.

   Yvonne Chouinard

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.

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

   Rosa Parks

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

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

   Ceasare Pavese

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 to 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

The average men consume.
The wise create.

   Maxime Lagace

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

The merit of all things lies in their difficultly.

   Alexandre Dumas

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

Nothing endures but change.

   Heraclitus

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 for 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

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

   Victor Hugo

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

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is never wasted.

   Aesop

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

I may be old, but I got to see America before it went to $hit. (Haha)

Unknown

Sorry if I’m cranky….I’m going thru my terrible 70’s right now.

Unknown

I love those who yearn from the impossible.

   Johann Wolfgang Goethe

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.

No one made a difference by being like everyone else.

   Buckminister Fuller

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

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.

chic



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

We suffer more often in imagination, than in reality.

   Seneca

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 every 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 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”.

Unknown

“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

"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. Shite

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 know
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

Winter is Natures way of saying, I’m not crowded, come play with me.

   chic 11.8.2025

A giant tree all covered in snow, is just waiting to show you, it’s magnificence.

   chic 11.7.2025

There are few joys like walking along a stream, you can’t see, with its banks covered in blankets of snow.

   chic 11.7.2025

An old snag on a high ridge, has seen it all.

   chic 11.8.2025

Sit on a high ridge and enjoy the feeling of being immersed in Nature.

chic 11.7.2025

There will be a time in our lives, when we get old.
But our memories of those days, will last forever.

   chic 11.8.2025

There are few pleasures more exciting than to stand on a summit, and seeing all the summits you’ve stood on, and all you want to visit.

   chic 11.7.2025

To see Nature turning colors in the high country is a joy few get to experience.

   chic 11.7.2025

To share a hike with your friends, that they’ve never seen, will bring joy to both of you.

   chic 11.7.2025

When you are in the mountains, stop occasionally to take in the beauty all around you.

   chic 11.7.2025

Trees are one of our best friends.
They give us a feeling of awe,
while providing us with air to breath.

   chic 11.7.2025

In a forest, the trees release an anti bacterial chemical, that helps us to relieve stress.

   chic 11.7.2025

Listen to a stream as you walk up a trail.
It is Nature soothing our psyche.

   chic 11.7.2025

The sounds of a stream tumbling down its path, is a sound I most enjoy.

   chic 11.7.2025

A trail leads you to a place that will live on forever in your memories

   chic 11.7.2025

A scree slope, isn’t just a pile of rocks,
It once was a summit standing tall.
Now after decades or even centuries,
It is our path.

   chic 11.7.2025

Wildflowers are a gift from Mother Nature.
They are a visual spectacle for us to enjoy.

chic 11.7.2025

A Giant Western Red Cedar was around for four centuries before you and I.
Give them a hug and feel their granger.

   chic 11.7.2025

Trail Hero’s make our walks in Nature, much more enjoyable

chic 11.7.2025

A Trail Hero digs in the dirt, so our hikes will be more enjoyable .
Thank them profusely.

   chic. 11.7.2026

To saw a log off a trail, gives us all a path to beauty.

   chic 11.7.2025

Sit by a high mountain lake and feel it’s calmness.
That calmness will follow you home.

   chic 11.7.2025

By showing others the way into Nature,
you will be in their hearts and thoughts forever.

   chic 11.7.2025

A hike on a high ridge line, will show you Nature’s beauty, all around you.

   chic 11.7.2025

If you can’t do great things. Do small things in a great way.

   Unknown

It is very hard to improve on Nature’s beauty.
But by maintaining her trails and picking up others trash,
you become her hero.

   chic 11.9.2025

In Nature, there is nothing more rewarding than cleaning up a messy campsite.

   chic 11.9.2025

A life well lived, comes from doing good things for others.

   chic 11.9.2025

The hardest thing about a great hike, is leaving Nature’s beauty.

   chic 11.9.2025

A beautiful hike in Nature, is a moment you will cherish forever.

chic 11.9.2024

When you hike in Nature,
feel her arms wrapped around you,
and know you,
she loves you for visiting her.

   chic 11.9.2025

Don't just walk in Nature, absorb her beauty, and take it with you forever.

   chic 11.9.2925

As ravens fly around you, learn to speak to them, and they will speak back.

   chic 11.9.2025

As you walk the high country trail, absorb all it offers.

   chic 11.9.2025

To lead others into the mountains, you get much pleasure.
But nothing like the pleasure they will experience.

   chic 11.9.2025

Walk slowly in the mountains, so you don’t miss a moment of her beauty.

   chic 11.9.2025

Every plant you see on a hike, is Nature showing off.

   chic 11.9.2025

To get the maximum enjoyment, walk slowly, and experience it to a maximum.

   chic 11.9.2025

Listen to the winds on your hike. It is Nature whispering to you.

   chic 11.9.2025

Even a day hiking in mild smoke, brings beauty.

   chic 12.9.2025

Look out at the expanses before you, and feel it’s awe.

   chic 11.9.2025

A waterfall is a voice of Nature that says I’m falling for you.

   chic 11.9.2025

A rush of water falling down its path, is both soothing, and exciting.

   chic 11.9.2025

Every waterfall has its own voice.
Listen to what it says, and feel its calmness.

   chic 11.9.2025

Did you know there is an elephant and her calf at Beehive Lake?
Go there and you’ll see for yourself.

   chic 11.9.2025

As you enjoy a high mountain lake, take a walk around it.
Seeing Nature from a different perspective is a delight.

   chic 11.9.2025

There are a million reasons to climb a mountain.
But one that we can all agree on,
is to see where our next adventure will be.

   chic 1.9.2025

One of my best times in the mountains, are when I come across happy people enjoying the great outdoors.
There smiles are addictive, and their stories are of good times.

   chic 11.9.2025

As night falls in the mountains, the summits are lit with an alpine glow that warms the heart.
Then the stars come out to amaze us all.
As the Milky Way transits across the night sky, we watch in awe.
Oh what a beautiful place to be.

   chic 11.9.2025

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