The ZMM Narrator And Chris Continue On An Extremely Difficult Way Down.

….“We’re on steep mucky soil now that’s hard to keep a footing in. We grab branches and shrubs to steady ourselves. I take a step, then figure where my next step will be, then take this step, then look again. Soon the brush becomes so thick I see we will have to hack through it. I sit down while Chris gets the machete from the pack on my back. He hands it to me, then, hacking and chopping, I head into the brush. It’s slow going. Two or three branches must be cut for every step. It may go on like this for a long time. For the remainder of the afternoon we climb down over grey weathered trunks of deadfalls and angle back and forth on the steep slope.“

Moving Down Mucky Soil In Heavy Underbrush, On The Way Towards Hyalite Creek, Gallatin National Forest, MT. Note several additional trail location clues.

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DATE-LINE: May 19, 2021. by Henry Gurr.
…REMEMBERING THAT => THERE ARE NO USELESS WASTED WORDS IN ZMM, WHAT ARE WE TO MAKE OF
….SO MUCH DISCUSSION OF THE NARRATOR AND CHRIS’, EXTREMELY DIFFICULT WAY DOWN?
.. Of course, this is good story-telling, and even might have actually happened. But in addition, this could be taken as a Metaphoric Bridge Connection & Telegram telling us =>
.. It Is A Difficult, Mucky, Tangled Underbrush Job => To Come Down From Phaedrus’ high-level IDEAL ideas, AND start his OWN development of low-level, DOWN-TO-EARTH, Quality.

….For example:
“It’s in the area of Science that I want to focus attention in the immediate future, for this is the area that most badly needs the relationship established. The dictum that Science and its offspring, technology, are "value free," that is, "quality free," has got to go. It’s that "value freedom" that underlines the death-force effect to which attention was brought early in the Chautauqua. Tomorrow I intend to start on that.”
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(Photo = NC12 Resize3576x1000 PartWithRavineLikelyHaveMuck+DenseDeadFall...... ZMM Page = 230 & 231 ...... Photo simulate WayPt = N+C 27 9180ft = 9.3 mi fm DeWeese.)