Hyalite Creek, Northwest View Downstream, Towards The West.
….The ZMM Narrator & Chris Hitch A Ride To Bozeman On The Hyalite Canyon Road, Which Is Just Discernible Above The White Camp Trailer And At Far Right Above The Grass.
…This Way They Leave Gallatin National Forest.

…. [“ We cross the creek using a rope, which we leave behind, …. “] “ then on the road beyond find some other campers who give us a ride into town.
….In Bozeman it’s dark and late. "

Hyalite Creek Road and Langhor Campground, Gallatin National Forest, MT By contrast with my previous 10 Sept 06 photos of this stream, look how high the water is!! Also note how green and lush the Summer Gallatin Mountains are!

A MOUNTAIN CLIMB AFTERWORD =>
…Metaphoric AND Fundamental Quality Reasons =>
…. WHY The ZMM Narrator & Chris MUST NEVER REACH =>
…….The High & White & Ideal & Purity Of Snow On The Mountain Top Pinnacle!
….To understand this, we must remember the below statements by the Narrator, as he & Chris were on their way down from the Ridge. The Key Reasons Why The Narrator “No Go To The Snow”, are shown (by Henry Gurr), underlined =>

…. “Now we enter the trees again, and the sight of the mountaintop is obscured by their branches and I’m glad.
....I think we’ve gone as far along Phædrus’ path as we want to go in this Chautauqua too. I want to leave his path now. I’ve given him all due credit for what he thought and said and wrote, and now I want to develop on my own some of the ideas he neglected to pursue. The title of this Chautauqua is "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," not "Zen and the Art of Mountain Climbing," and there are no motorcycles on the tops of mountains, and in my opinion very little Zen. Zen is the "spirit of the valley," not the mountaintop. The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. Let’s get out of here.”
->….[[Several paragraphs later ]]
…. “ “Feels good to be going down, doesn’t it?" I say.
....No answer.
....We’re going to have a little fight, I’m afraid.
....You go up the mountaintop and all you’re gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.
....That’s about what happened to him.
....Thought he was a goddamned Messiah.
....Not me, boy. The hours are way too long, and the pay is way too short. Let’s go. Let’s go . . . .
....Soon I’m clomping down the slope in a kind of two-step idiot gallop . . . ga-dump, ga-dump, ga-dump . . . until I hear Chris holler, "SLOW DOWN!" and see he is a couple of hundred yards back through the trees.
....Perhaps he would have gone in the direction I’m now about to go in if this second wave of crystallization, the metaphysical wave, had finally grounded out where I’ll be grounding it out, that is, in the everyday world. I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.
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(Photo = 108-0863 ...... ZMM Page = 232 ...... WayPt = 199i25 ~6230ft …… Photo at WayPt = 220x)