“Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes as to wealth. Ambition begins by accumulating as a means of happiness, and finishes by continuing to accumulate as an end.” — Charles C. Colton, 1870
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The first peak I bagged is called Poppy. It was at the head of our little box canyon and I must have been five or six years old when, tagging along with the big kids, I got to its top. I benefited mightily from the post-WW2 camping craze, and while our pilot and captain was my dad who enjoyed fishing, hiking, star-gazing and tending campfire, I most enjoyed getting atop a high spot; any high spot would do. By the time I became a husband and then a father of two boys, I’d been bagging peaks my whole life. Virtually all were nameless prominences near where ever it was I happened to be, but I’d also made a few non-technical climbs in the alpines of various mountain ranges. So naturally I’d wish to pass on this avocation to my wife and children.
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