They keep it light and lively— Mal and Jo on the go Mount Brown Glacier Park in their own words. you this I shall choose to call fonts recorded on a mountain and if the birds cooperate and if sounds come through the pine trees perhaps you’ll be perhaps in what I say you’ll be able to close your eyes and put yourself with us I’ve never done that or carried a tape recorder halfway up the side of a mountain we are probably about 5,000 feet above Lake Donald and look right down on it it’s beautiful blue that you’ve ever seen in anybody painting you can see at the top’s pine tree if I swivel my head just a little bit I look right straight across at the most awesome site of mountains covered with in fact Joe and I are lying here sort of halfway across a climbing trail boots off we carried along our lunch fried chicken ham and cheese sandwiches and a quart of orange and I walked right off trail over to a pile of snow and dug the snow out put at the paper cups in the orange juice and that was the best drink I’ve ever had than you’re wrong I swivel my head to the left farther I see across a valley a great basin that is filled with snow and or ice possibly a glacier it gives you a funny feeling when you sit like this because all of a sudden the world that is so much of your life is all gone completely wiped out we haven’t seen a soul since we left the camp we started to climb about quarter of nine this morning now past one we stopped for lunch we’re up on the side of Mount Brown and it’s just the most completely alone feeling you can have we have seen no tracks of any we’ve heard no sounds of it I did see the wake of a boat down on Lake Donald about half an hour that’s all Joe is lying here with her eyes shut you want to say anything say something you know anything I don’t care well I’m just sort of coming away say it it’s a lovely spot to just relax think or dream or even just sunbathe clear little puffy does that mean it’s going great so go back to sleep now after a while we’ll put our boots on and wander back down the trail our most amazing conglomeration of switchbacks and very steep climbing and this is what we came fine and I said a minute ago if we had to get on the train go right back now it would have been worth it because to me just a few minutes like this of looking forever at nothing and everything makes it all

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