The Mountains Look Peaceful, But the Narrator's Accelerating Bad Dreams and Imagined Threat of Avalanches Warn of Imminent Danger!

…. “As we walk along the summit toward the beginning of a ravine we hear another clattering sound of falling rock, much louder than the first one I heard just a while ago. I look up to see where it is. Still nothing.
.... "What was that?" Chris asks.
.... "Rockslide." .
…. We both stand still for a moment, listening. Chris asks, "Is there somebody up there?"
.... "No, I think it’s just melting snow that’s loosening stones. When it’s really hot like this in the early part of the summer you hear a lot of small rockslides. Sometimes big ones. It’s part of the wearing down of the mountains."
...."I didn’t know mountains wore out."
...."Not wore out, wore down. They get rounded and gentle. These mountains are still unworn."
.... Everywhere around us now, except above, the sides of the mountain are covered with blackish green of the forest. In the distance the forest looks like velvet.
....I say, "You look at these mountains now, and they look so permanent and peaceful, but they’re changing all the time and the changes aren’t always peaceful. Underneath us, beneath us here right now, there are forces that can tear this whole mountain apart."
...."Do they ever?"
...."Ever what?"
.... "Tear the whole mountain apart?"
.... "Yes," I say. Then I remember: "Not far from here there are nineteen people lying dead under millions of tons of rock. Everyone was amazed there were only nineteen." .. “

Leaving The Top Of A Ridge Crest, On Flank Of Mountain With Snow, Above Upper Fox Creek, Off Of Upper Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, MT. "N+C Hypothetical Climb Trail " location clue, along a ridge that leads to snow => “ … we walk along the summit toward the beginning of a ravine . “

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(Photo = September2006 0069 ...... ZMM Page = 218 ...... Photo simulate WayPt = N+C 25 9200ft = 9.47 mi fm DeWeese.)