A Huge Forest Fire Burned Off This Whole Area Many Years Ago!

….“Later the trees become scarce and spindly, with large areas of grass and underbrush between them. It’s too hot for the jacket and sweater so I stop at a roadside pulloff to remove them. ” (Cont. Next)

Colgate Lick Rest Area, Lochsa River Canyon, ID. This is the only “open area” I remember as I drove the Lochsa River Canyon, so this must be the Narrator’s “roadside pulloff. ”

….Next the Narrator will take up “Stuckness“ and “Unstuckness”. This is leading up to and is really part of his “Gumptionology 101”. He later calls this type of Chautauqua “dry and boring”, in which we see that such “hot & dry” material he reserves for lower elevations, where it is hot or, as here, getting warm.
…But, by contrast, when they happen to go up to higher, cooler, elevations, the Gumptionology discussions are interrupted, so that the reader (and Author Robert Pirsig) can enjoy the cooler forests and meadows, and good riding. For the reader, these are welcomed breaks away from heavy, “dry and boring” discussion.
….Please start to notice this pattern.

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