Cheryl Strayed Quotes

As I Ascended, I Realized I Didn't Understand What A Mountain Was, Or Even If I Was Hiking Up One Mountain Or A Series Of Them Glommed Together. I'd Not Grown Up Around Mountains. I'd Walked On A Few, But Only On Well-trod Paths On Day Hikes. They'd Seemed To Be Nothing More Than Really Big Hills. But They Were Not That. They Were, I Now Realized, Layered And Complex, Inexplicable And Analogous To Nothing. Each Time I Reached The Place That I Thought Was The Top Of The Mountain Or The Series Of Mountains Glommed Together, I Was Wrong. There Was Still More Up To Go, Even If First There Was A Tiny Slope That Went Tantalizingly Down. So Up I Went Until I Reached What Really Was The Top. I Knew It Was The Top Because There Was Snow. Not On The Ground, But Falling From The Sky, In Thin Flakes That Swirled In Mad Patterns, Pushed By The Wind.

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