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“Your legs feel like fried bacon after a day of climbing and descending. It's a roller coaster ride, but no one is pulling you up the mountain. You're headed toward Yosemite more than 4,000 feet of pounding the pedals. You are aware of every movement because your thighs feel tender with a sensation of pain. You push on, toward the final ascent into the valley. In front of you is a monster mountain-El Capitan. Your eyes grow wide. You take a deep breath. Suddenly, you feel only wonder.”

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.”

“Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.”

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”

“What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.”