Mount Hozomeen, North Cascades
“There she is!” yelled Happy and in the swirled-across top-of-the-world fog I saw a funny little peaked almost Chinese cabin among the little pointy firs and boulders standing on a bald rock top surrounded by snowbanks and patches of wet grass with tiny flowers. I gulped. It was too dark and dismal to like it. “This will be my home and restingplace all summer?”
Hozomeen, Hozomeen, most beautiful mountain I ever seen … but what a horror when I first saw that void the first night of my staying on Desolation Peak waking up from deep fogs of 20 hours to a starlit night suddenly loomed by Hozomeen with his two sharp points, right in my window black… Over 70 days I had to stare at it.
…as I was hiking down the mountain with my pack I turned and knelt on the trail and said “Thank you, shack.” Then I added “Blah”, with a little grin, because I knew that that shack and that mountain would understand what that meant, and turned and went on down the trail back to this world.
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love this band though I cant find anything about them - can someone post the tracklisting to the CD, i only have the tracks this blog posted.
why not support Forest Swords and buy the CD.?
How was the condition getting into Hozomeen? Does it require a 4WD?