It is enjoyable when someone quotes me from a hiking column. It doesn’t happen that often and it is interesting that it is generally not about the physical hike, but commentary about the human condition. Here are a couple that happened recently this winter.
Then some quotes from my columns that I like personally from this winter and last summer.
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