Getting Into the Mountains

Imbolc                                                                                Imbolc Moon

Bill and Tom, Guanella Pass
Bill and Tom, Guanella Pass

The good of going into the mountains is that life is reconsidered; it is far from the slavery of your own modes of living and you have opportunity of viewing the town at such a distance as may afford you a just view… He who believes in inspiration will come here to seek it. He who believes in the wood-loving nymphs must woo them here. And he who believes in the reality of his soul will therein find inspiration and muses and God and will come out here to undress himself of pedantry…   Ralph Waldo Emerson. Journal, 1833