After The Steep Climb, The Trail Goes Along A Mountainside High Above Cottonwood Creek.
….“ To doubt the literal meaning of the words of Jesus or Moses incurs hostility from most people, but it’s just a fact that if Jesus or Moses were to appear today, unidentified, with the same message he spoke many years ago, his mental stability would be challenged. This isn’t because what Jesus or Moses said was untrue or because modern society is in error but simply because the route they chose to reveal to others has lost relevance and comprehensibility. "Heaven above" fades from meaning when space-age consciousness asks, Where is "above"? But the fact that the old routes have tended, because of language rigidity, to lose their everyday meaning and become almost closed doesn’t mean that the mountain is no longer there. It’s there and will be there as long as consciousness exists.
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Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, MT.

DISCUSSION: Take Special Note Of The ZMM Narrator’s Contrasting Mountain Metaphors =>
..A) In the ZMM Narrator's FIRST FORAY into the Mountains after Red Lodge, he goes up into that ”high country,” using Paved Roads made by someone else (using Civilization Machinery), and moves with energy supplied by Motorcycle Machinery (ZMM Part II.)
..B) In the ZMM Narrator's SECOND FORAY into Cottonwood Canyon, the Narrator goes up into his ”high country” at first following a Civilization Path, prepared by others (ZMM Part III ). However, later, he makes and follows his OWN VERY DIFFICULT Routes, AND is moved by his OWN muscle power!
..C) Especially note that, the Narrator does this, despite the fact that he can plainly see on his Topo Maps, that there are (no doubt) several well-traveled trails, that would have gained the snow much more easily.
…All This Metaphorically Ties Into The Narrator's High Country Chautauqua, As Follows =>
..D) In the ZMM Narrator's FIRST FORAY into his high country, he discusses the Civilized Philosophies of OTHERS.
..E) In this SECOND FORAY, the Narrator goes up into he is making his OWN Philosophy, in this case the beginnings of his Metaphysics of Quality =>
…. “. I don’t know how much thought passed before he [Phaedrus] arrived at this, but eventually he saw that Quality couldn’t be independently related with either the subject or the object but could be found only in the relationship of the two with each other. It is the point at which subject and object meet. . “
..C) Unfortunately, and as always, Phaedrus, the Narrator, and even Chris suffer for this independence!!
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(Photo = IMG_0046 Resize1000x1333.JPG...... ZMM Page = 168 ...... Photo Simulate WayPt = N+C 03b = ~1.5 mi fm DeWeese.)