Amateur Mountain Climber Joe Pioro, With Gear Ready For The Trail, Which Includes, In His Hand, A Garmin Montana GPS. This Special Device Will Guide His Taking Of Photos At N+C WayPoints, and Has Added Iridium Satellite 2 Way Text Communication.

…Concerning The Book => “Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance” (ZMM), Mr. Pioro Will Research How Well The ZMM Book “Narrator + Chris Mountain Climb Narrative” Actually Fits The Canyon & Mountain Landscape. .

Trailhead, Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, Gallatin Gateway, MT.


CONCERNING AUTHOR ROBERT PIRSIG’S SKILL & TECHNICAL ACCURACY, AS CONFIRMED BY MR. PIORO’S PHOTOS IN THIS ALBUM:
…As you will see in This Album, Mr. Pioro’s Photos consistently show that Author Robert Pirsig, in writing his Narrator & Chris Mountain Climb, has quite accurately, again and again, written the landscape of the Gallatin National Forest Mountains, into his Narrative Story.
…We may assume he did this with Topo Maps, and his general experience from being in Montana Mountains, without actually ever been in the exact landscape he writes into the ZMM Book’s Mountain Climb Narrative.
…But WHY did Mr. Pirsig spend so much evident effort or achieve this accuracy” …The SECOND reason for Mr Pirsig’s accuracy => Mr Pirsig said something like the following:
"For success, ZMM needed all the support it could get. " He went on to say: "For the reader to accept the overall central philosophic messages of ZMM, the story travel narrative must seem to the reader, absolutely real." And for Author Robert Pirsig, the way to achieve this, was to be both interesting and absolutely accurate & factual with his travel scenery narratives.
...And that, I believe, is one of the reasons, why the ZMM Travel Narrative, and especially the Mountain Climb Narrative was added to ZMM in the first place.
You can read more on this topic, including 1) A "field check-up" of the factual accuracy of the ZMM Narrative, with many other examples of Robert Pirsig accuracy and 2) Six Robert Pirsig Imperatives For Accuracy =>
… In Author Robert Pirsig's ZMM Book, The Travel Narrative Was Found To Be Factually Accurate, Detail After Detail. It Held To “Good Old Reality ”.Click Here.

PLAN & PHOTO ASSIGNMENTS FOR THIS ALBUM:
… As you will see, at the bottom of each caption => Many of Mr. Joe Pioro’s photos are assigned to a N+C #, that is close to the N+C location of where he actually took the photo.
…However, after N+C 05, about 2/3 of Mr. Pioro’s photos, are assigned to a photo N+C location, which is FAR AWAY FROM where he took the photo.

....This is because I needed a photo, to Illustrate the ZMM Narrator’s Passage, and this was the best Pioro Photo still unused. These “far away from” photos are indicated (at the bottom of each caption), by words “Photo Simulate ”
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...Here you as reader, need to know that a major reason for => Mr. Pioro’s lack of Photos (especially after N+C 09), that specifically show what is at a specific N+C Trail Point => Is due to the fact that he could not climb, the very dense forest, growing with the a abundance of water near Fox Creek.

… Here you as reader, also need to know this => Upon Mr. Pioro’s arrival back from his climb, he said => “ Everything was perfect until N+C 12, but I could not find a way to N+C 13, close to the creek. Especially at N+C 12, it was hard to see the knoll.
… Looking up into Fox Creek Canyon and its creek, basically I could see it would be exceedingly difficult for me to force further. Perhaps, bush whacking a day, might gain the ridge at N+C 15. Thus I hit a real barrier.

…Because Mr. Pioro, did not, as did the ZMM Narrator, have “a machete from the pack on my back. ….He at this point gave up, found his way back to the History Rock Trail, and hiked on it, over the mountain ridge, to the paved road in Hyalite Canyon, for a ride back to his own car, at the Cottonwood Canyon National Forest Trailhead.

…Eventually, Mr. Pioro might seek an easier route, going in by way of the History Rock Trail, where it goes through Fox Creek Meadows.
..Send an email, if you want to know details concerning these photos having a “far away from” assignment. Ditto, if you have any questions or are confused.

…Eventually, AT THE END OF THIS ALBUM, will be found a First Sub-Album titled => Mr. Joe Pioro’s Photos Of Fox Creek Cabin, And Photos Along History Rock Trail, From Fox Creek Cabin To The Paved Road In Hyalite Canyon.

… A Second Sub-Album, Will Show The Remainder Of Mr. Pioro’s Photos Not Otherwise Displayed In The ZMMQ Gallery.

Mr. Joe Pioro is skilled in Business Processes, Systems Applications and Products Implementation, Requirements Analysis, IT Strategy, and Software Development Life Cycle https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-pioro-a98a1685/

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A View Of Flowers & The Trail, ~200 Feet From The Gallatin National Forest Trailhead, Cottonwood Canyon.
… At the beginning of ZMM Chapter 4, In the book => “Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance” (ZMM). … Author Robert Pirsig writes =>
….“ Every Chautauqua should have a list somewhere of valuable things to remember that can be kept in some safe place for times of future need and inspiration. Details. And now, while the others are still snoring away wasting this beautiful morning sunlight . . . well . . . to sort of fill time . . .
What I have here is my list of valuable things to take on your next motorcycle trip across the Dakotas.
… and store it in a file at home to check off when I am ready to go.
Most of the items are commonplace and need no comment. Some
.A copy of Thoreau’s Walden . . . which Chris has never heard and which can be read a hundred times without exhaustion. I try always to pick a book far over his head and read it as a basis for questions and answers, rather than without interruption. I read a sentence or two, wait for him to come up with his usual barrage of questions, answer them, then read another sentence or two. Classics read well this way. They must be written this way. Sometimes we have spent a whole evening reading and talking and discovered we have only covered two or three pages. It’s a form of reading done a century ago . . . when Chautauquas were popular. Unless you’ve tried it you can’t imagine how pleasant it is to do it this way.
I see Chris is sleeping over there completely relaxed, none of his normal tension. I guess I won’t wake him up yet.
Camping Equipment includes:
1.Two sleeping bags. 2.Two ponchos and one ground cloth. These convert into a tent and also protect the luggage from rain while you are traveling. 3.Rope. 4.U. S. Geodetic Survey maps of an area where we hope to do some hiking. “

200 Feet Beyond The Trailhead, Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, Gallatin Gateway, MT.
NEW TOPIC:
….The Narrator (i.e. Author Robert Pirsig) most certainly used Topographic (Topo) Maps to explore his high country, both for Beartooth Plateau Southwest of Yellowstone National Park, AND in Gallatin National Forest South of Bozeman. This is very likely because (in the above passage), he tells us in his check-off list are => “ US. Geodetic Survey maps of an area where we hope to do some hiking. “ (See his list of travel and camping gear, Early in ZMM, Chapter4, p 036.)
…We can infer that these maps were used ALSO to plan the climbing route, in the writing of ZMM Part III, and in Author Robert Pirsig’s July 1968 actual mountain climb, regularly check their course during that climb. These very maps (or similar), were likely on Pirsig’s desk during the 4 years he planned, and did his writing, re the high country and mountain hiking portions of ZMM.

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A GoogleEarth View of Cottonwood Canyon, Including DeWeese Homestead, And Irrigated Farms Of The Wide, Flat Valley Of The Gallatin River. View Looking ~East.
…[Speaking to Robert and Gennie DeWeese at the close of ZMM Book Chapter 15, at the end of ZMM Part II, the Narrator forsees a foray into the mountains. =>.] "The wind coming down from the snowfields up above sounds for a long time throughout the house. It grows loud and high as if in hope of sweeping the whole house, all of us, away into nothing, ....... "I keep listening to the wind," I say. I add, "I think when the Sutherlands have left, Chris and I should do some climbing up to where that wind starts. I think it’s time we got a better look at that land.” .
…Thus ZMM Part III opens with the Narrator and Chris doing some mountain climbing and camping. Mixed with the local scenery, the Narrator’s Chautauqua, develops both 1) Phaedrus’s, conclusions concerning Qualith and then 2) The ZMM Narrator’s OWN, Philosophical Perspectives, concerning Quality.

…And near the end of Chapter 19, Chris and the Narrator, together reach a wonderful dramatic climax of => A) The Narrator’s Theory Of Quality, and B) Chris triumphantly reaches the top, as they correspondingly arrive in a clearing, and “Blue Sky””, at the crest of the mountain ridge!

… EXPLANATION: The ZMM Narrator’s explication of what he calls Quality, is his most important topic and that which dominates the second half of ZMM book. And. Or course, the reader of these pages, must struggle to understand Quality, with a capital.
…And a major exposition of the nature of Quality takes place during the mountain climb with Chris. Here, the ZMM Narrator is working on his own inquiry into the nature of “Quality”, and later, as the Narrator and Chris return to Lower Elevations, the Narrator starts his own philosophy of everyday practical living,, a topic that continues during their trip further West.

Gallatin National Forest, Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin Gateway, MT.

This Is An Album Of Amateur Mountain Climber Joe Pioro’s Photos =>
…Illustrating The Mountain Climb Narrative, Of Chris And The Narrator, In The Book => “Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance” (ZMM). “

EXPLANATION OF THIS ALBUM OF PHOTOS:
…: Henry Gurr used the ZMM Book Mountain Climb Narrative’s words, as clues, along with knowledge of the forest, in order to construct a reasonable "Hypothetical Climb Trail Map" on a topo map of the Gallatin National Forest adjacent to the DeWeese home.
…This "Hypothetical Climb Trail Map", was then used to guide Amateur Mountain Climber Joe Pioro, who Researched & Photographed => The Gallatin National Forest Mountain Route. that most likely => Fits the ZMM Book’s Narrator + Chris Climb Narrative.
… Mr. Pioro's climb was set on the same days, July 17 & 18, as Robert Pirsig’s own, 1968 for real climb up Cottonwood Canyon, starting at the DeWeese Home.
… Mr. Pirsig’s ~17 July 1968.Climb Route Is Shown On This Photo Of Map. Click Here.
… As you will learn from his letters, author Pirsig does not agree with my Hypothetical Trail choice.
…For Additional Information: Click here for ZMM Bozeman Mountain Hypothetical Climb Trail Topo Map(s), and instructions, which opens in a new browser. Remember to Click-On-Image several times, to get the largest view.

You will see Mr. Joe Pioro’s photos in this album, starting third next =>
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It’s Getting Late At The DeWeese Homestead..

The ZMM Narrator says => …."The wind com02ing down from the snowfields up above sounds for a long time throughout the house. It grows loud and high as if in hope of sweeping the whole house, all of us, away into nothing, ....
.... "I keep listening to the wind," I say. I add, "I think when the Sutherlands have left, Chris and I should do some climbing up to where that wind starts. I think it’s time he got a better look at that land. “

….Speaking To Robert And Gennie DeWeese At The Close Of The Next To Last Chapter Of ZMM’s Part II, The Narrator “Listening To The Wind”, Forsees A Foray Into The Mountains..

….AND as emphasized in the Previous Album for Photos ZMM Part 2, you should especially think => Master Motif !! When you see => “WIND” & “LISTENING TO THE WIND”

Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin Gateway, MT. For the DeWeese Home, Google Satellite will show 14190 Cottonwood Canyon. Bozeman, MT. 59718

…As you will see => Each of the following Joe Pioro’s Photos , shows a N+C WayPt Number. This Number is to be associated to the same WayPoints shown on the three topo maps of=> The ZMM Bozeman Mountain Hypothetical Climb Trail Topo Map(s),. whireyou saw a link to these maps on the previous photo.

…As written into ZMM Book, the ZMM Narrator's statements, concerning when their trip took place, would by circumstantial evidence, date their actual physical mountain climb, on or around 17 July 1968. Thus a proper set of trail photos illustrating the Narrator's hike would show a Mid Summer's lush green, as you will see in Joe Pioro’s Photos.
…CAUTION: The NFS Cottonwood Creek Trail as marked on my map, follows Cottonwood Creek and thus initially is on private land. At Parking Lot (N+C 02 on my map), follow trail marked by signs. This stays on National Forest Land.

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Google Satellite View Of The DeWeese Homestead..
Click Here For Satellite View Of => 14190 Cottonwood Canyon. Bozeman, MT. 9l

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A GoogleEarth View of Cottonwood Canyon, Showing Waypoints N+ C 02-03-04, For The Most Likely Gallatin National Forest, Mountain Climb Route That => Fits The ZMM Book’s Narrator + Chris Climb Narrative. View Looking ~East.

Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin Gateway, MT.

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A Video Showing The Road To The DeWeese Home, In Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin Gateway, MT.
…Mr. Dennis Davis shot this footage by mounting a Quadcopter Drone on the roof of his car, with the camera pointed forward.
… A second part of this video shows Cottonwood Canyon Trail views, similar to the first of Amateur Mountain Climber Joe Pioro’s, Mountain Climb Photos, shown in this Album Of Photos, you are looking at now.
Click Here To See This 4 Minute Video By Dennis Davis Of Pirsig's Journey,. …
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More Views Of The DeWeese Homestead As Well As Views Of 4 ZMM Enthusiasts Aug 2, 2019 Cottonwood Canyon Hike.
Click Here For Views Of A Series Of Photos of => A) DeWeese Home, then B) ZMM Enthusiasts Hike ~2 Miles On Gallatin National Forest Trail Into Cottonwood Canyon, Bozeman, MT. August 3, 2019.
3) ?Ten? Cottonwood Canyon Trail Photos By ZMM Enthusiasts David Matos, Who Hiked ~2 Miles On The Cottonwood Canyon Trail, Gallatin National Forest, July 17, 2024.
Right Click & Open In New Tab, to view a series of photos of => ZMM Enthusiasts David Matos Who Hiked ~2 Miles On Gallatin National Forest Trail Into Cottonwood Canyon Bozeman, MT. August 3, 2019.

.ATTENTION:
…After you click link above, a page of 18 small photos will come up: Please scroll down to and read starting at the 8th small photo.

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GOOGLE-EARTH VIEWING NOTES:
…A) The GoogleEarth photo image you see above, shows the Mountain Landscape of the next FIVE photos, but since it is a 2D Image it is difficult to perceive any 3D.
…B) To REALLY SEE the 3D “in” these Mountain Landscapes, study Right Click Here And Request New Tab. Then GoogleEarth will load in an extra Browser Tab. After several minutes to load, at Lower Right, ClickOn 2D, to bring up 3D, then ClickDrag, to Best See the 3D.
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The Mountain Climb Starts Off Easy, Following A Well-Traveled Level Forest Path:
….In /\ Above /\ Photo, You Can See The Path Is On Level Ground,
…… And You Will Have To Imagine Cottonwood Creek, Is On The Left.

….“Chris and I have had a good night’s sleep and this morning have packed the backpacks carefully, and now have been going up the mountainside for about an hour. .. The forest here at the bottom of the canyon is mostly pine, with a few aspen and broad-leafed shrubs. Steep canyon walls rise way above us on both sides. “

Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, MT.

So, Where Was The ZMM Narrator's Trail In The Mountains After He Left The DeWeese Family?
…We Must Use Topo Maps And ALL The Narrator's Clues, Even TINY Ones, To Deduce His Implied Trail.
…. Early in Part III, the Narrator says they => “had a good night’s sleep and this morning have packed the backpacks carefully.” “ Logically, this must have been at the DeWeese's. AND since the distance to .“been going up the mountainside“, is unmentioned, this distance must have been fairly short. AND, since the ZMM Narrator says =>.“ Steep canyon walls rise way above us on both sides. “, this means their path must have been in the nearby Cottonwood Creek Canyon of Gallatin National Forest.
… On page 173 the Narrator says, “Just up above the top of the ridge the snow can be seen now.”
…Since “snow” is mentioned several times, we may logically assume he moves, from the DeWeese home, directly towards the (closest?) snow. And show is important enough, for the ZMM Narrator to even say that, snow is visible while they are deep in this narrow canyon.
…Assembling this evidence, we project that Author Pirsig wants the ZMM Reader to think of the Narrator & Chris Mountain Climb, as being (most likely) in the mountains that are Southeast of the DeWeese home.
….Indeed, as may be seen in Topo Maps, there is a 1.2 mile stretch of Cottonwood Canyon that up canyon, directly lines-up-with, some very high snow peaks, in the Gallatin National Forest, such as Mount Blackmore (10,154 feet) and Elephant Mountain (10,085 feet).
…On the Cottonwood Trail, this is factually confirmed, as you will see in an upcoming photo.

….Given these crucial clues, a ridge fitting the ZMM Narrator’s descriptions, is also identifiable. Having thus identified a probable "ridge" on the North side of and parallel to Cottonwood Canyon, we can identify another connecting ridge, that then could lead a climber to snow. See link to map the previous photo. Indeed, as you continue to view these photos, you will eventually see 2 GoogleEarth views of this ridge. (Discussion Continued Next.)
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The Mountain Climb Continues Easy, And Follows A Well-Traveled Level Forest Path:
…… And You Will Have To Imagine Cottonwood Creek, Is On The Left.

….“Occasionally the trail opens into a patch of sunlight and grass that edges the canyon stream, but soon it reenters the deep shade of the pines. The earth of the trail is covered with a soft springy duff of pine needles. It is very quiet here. “

Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, MT.

CONTINUED.DISCUSSION: So, Where Is The ZMM Narrator's Trail?
….Early in my search for possible mountain climb routes that fit the Narrator's Trail Descriptions, for example studied trails that =>
…A) Turned off the main Cottonwood Canyon National Forest Trail, where Topo Map shows WayPt = (N+C 08 or 09 or 10) Further study shows such a route as satisfactorily leading to these above mentioned “turn off would really lead thru a major canyon (Fox Creek), with a used & visible trail that fairly soon became weak, as stated by the Narrator. \
…B) The “trail” of above A), going up the Fox Creek Canyon here, could fit these Narrator's: 1) a very steep part, 2) "flat spot/knoll, protruding from the side of the mountain.“, 3) cross over a "ridge", and 4) would fits the next morning's Narrative where " still have a lot of climbing to do“, to reach snow.
….C) And in addition. A turn into Fox Creek Canyon this WayPt = (N+C 09), is some 5.73 miles from DeWeese's and turning up the slope at this location, would nicely fit the Narrator's time for "lunch 1/2 way up" .
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Pines, Hardwoods, And Sunlight Along The Trail In Cottonwood Canyon.

…. “Mountains like these and travelers in the mountains and events that happen to them here are found not only in Zen literature but in the tales of every major religion. The allegory of a physical mountain for the spiritual one that stands between each soul and its goal is an easy and natural one to make. Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships. “

Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, MT. (Discussion Continued from previous.) As a person reads ZMM => At first the ZMM Narrator's Mountain Climb Route’s physical layout, may be a complete mental scramble.
….But as we study a topo map and read and re-read Chris and the Narrator’s “climb” (Chapters 16-21), we can gradually begin to pick-out a Mountain Landscape Route, that fits rather well the Narrator’s overall clues.
…And as you will see => My "N+C Hypothetical Climb Trail" is indeed a route an experienced mountaineer would choose as a reasonable way to climb “to the snow” with an 11 year old boy.
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The Mountain Climb, Following A Well-Traveled Level Forest Path, Encounters A Log Bridge Over Cottonwood Creek.
… In A Previous Photo, This Log Bridge Was Mentioned 2 Places => 1) In A Video By Dennis Davis, And 2) In Views Of 4 ZMM Enthusiasts Hike Along Cottonwood Canyon Trail.
.“ I want to talk now about Phædrus’ exploration into the meaning of the term Quality, an exploration which he saw as a route through the mountains of the spirit. As best I can puzzle it out, there were two distinct phases.
In the first phase he made no attempt at a rigid, systematic definition of what he was talking about. This was a happy, fulfilling and creative phase. It lasted most of the time he taught at the school back in the valley behind us. “


Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, MT. .

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After The Log Bridge Over Cottonwood Creek, The Mountain Climb Trail Goes By This Large Rock, Then Climbs Steeply.
… In A Previous Photo, This Rock & Steep Trail, Is Also Mentioned => In Views Of 4 ZMM Enthusiasts Hike Along Cottonwood Canyon Trail.
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….“ The second phase emerged as a result of normal intellectual criticism of his lack of definition of what he was talking about. In this phase he made systematic, rigid statements about what Quality is, and worked out an enormous hierarchic structure of thought to support them. He literally had to move heaven and earth to arrive at this systematic understanding and when he was done felt he’d achieved an explanation of existence and our consciousness of it better than any that had existed before.
If it was truly a new route over the mountain it’s certainly a needed one. For more than three centuries now the old routes common in this hemisphere have been undercut and almost washed out by the natural erosion and change of the shape of the mountain wrought by scientific truth. The early climbers established paths that were on firm ground with an accessibility that appealed to all, but today the Western routes are all but closed because of dogmatic inflexibility in the face of change. “

Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, MT.

(Continued next)

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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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There Are Many Routes Into the Mountains, Real and Philosophic.

….“Some travel into the mountains accompanied by experienced guides who know the best and least dangerous routes by which they arrive at their destination. Still others, inexperienced and untrusting, attempt to make their own routes. Few of these are successful, but occasionally some, by sheer will and luck and grace, do make it. Once there they become more aware than any of the others that there’s no single or fixed number of routes. There are as many routes as there are individual souls.“

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For Now. Let’s Focus On A “N+C Hypothetical Climb Trail”, That Has A BEST Fit To The ZMM Narrative. The Following Discussion Applies To This Topo Map, Which Is The BEST One To Now Focus On => Right Click and Choose New Tab, Where Will See => The following Marked Trail =>
..H) WayPt = N+C 01 to 08 are IN Cottonwood Canyon, going from DeWeese Home, to nearly Fox Creek Canyon.
..I) .WayPt = N+C 09 & 10 are further up-stream Cottonwood Canyon, and MARK THE. Continuation of => A “N+C Hypothetical Climb Trail”, into Fox Creek Canyon. This trail leaves Cottonwood Canyon to go East, Then Southeast, to go up, at first close by Fox Creek WayPt = N+C 10 & 11, then gets gradually steeper. Continues very steep to West of the creek, to climb towards WayPt = N+C 12.
..J) WayPt = N+C 12 leads to a difficult climb to an adjacent knoll for Narrator & Chris overnight camping.
..K) Continues the next day along Upper Fox Creek to WayPt = N+C 14, which marks a steeper climb. Then after (possibly) a zig-zag, the climb turns Southeast going by WayPt = N+C 15. Then climb to ZMM Narrator’s ridge crest WayPt = N+C 23 & 24, where Chris shouts “Blue Sky!”
..L) At WayPt = N+C 24, the ZMM Narrator studies a path along the ridge South towards Mount Blackmore, where Google Earth shows patches of snow.
.M) WayPt = N+C 25, 26,27 28, marks Narrator’s (frightened by rock-slide) climb down to a nearest paved road, and Trailhead Parking Lot where there would be people for Narrator & Chris to hitch a ride back to Bozeman. This is at WayPt = N+C 29. I have chosen a route that goes through a muddy rut at Blackmore Creek.
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Trees And Open Grass Are Good Habitats For Partridges.
…."Phaeddrus’ Exploration … Which He Saw As The Mountains Of The Spirit."

…. “ I want to talk now about Phædrus’ exploration into the meaning of the term Quality, an exploration which he saw as a route through the mountains of the spirit. As best I can puzzle it out, there were two distinct phases.
…. In the first phase he made no attempt at a rigid, systematic definition of what he was talking about. This was a happy, fulfilling and creative phase. It lasted most of the time he taught at the school back in the valley behind us.
… The second phase emerged as a result of normal intellectual criticism of his lack of definition of what he was talking about. In this phase he made systematic, rigid statements about what Quality is, and worked out an enormous hierarchic structure of thought to support them. He literally had to move heaven and earth to arrive at this systematic understanding and when he was done felt he’d achieved an explanation of existence and our consciousness of it better than any that had existed before.
....If it was truly a new route over the mountain it’s certainly a needed one. [After a page explaining the need to repair centuries of "Philosophical Erosion" the Narrator hears a sound. “
…. A whirr sounds and a partridge disappears through the trees. . "Did you see it?" says Chris. .. "Yes," I say back. .. "What was it?" . "A partridge." .. "How do you know?" .. "They rock back and forth like that when they fly," I say. I’m not sure of this but it sounds right. "They stay close to the ground too." .. “
…Is The Partridge A Metaphor For "Spirit"? OR Are There OTHER Metaphorical Connections To “Bird”? As Discussed Below:
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Beside Cottonwood Creek, Upper Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, MT.

DATE-LINE: May 12, 2021. by Henry Gurr.

….MYSTICAL, POSSIBLY SPIRITUAL FORCES, RELATED TO THE NARRATOR’S A partridge."
…. From the above the ZMM passage, The ZMM Book Enthusiast, reading =>
…. “A partridge." … How do you know? … They rock back and forth like that when they fly … They stay close to the ground too. "
……. REMEMBERING THAT => THERE ARE NO USELESS WASTED WORDS IN ZMM, AND, Since A Partridge Is “A Bird, ” The ZMM Reader, Should Pause To Wonder If There Are Added Metaphorical Connections =>
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..A) In Chapter 14 two Chapters earlier, we saw the passage => …. “In the distance a single bird cries plaintively. , to be a Master Motif.
..B) And, we saw that, a similar ZMM Chapter 14 passage, in the Bozeman, MT, churchyard =:>. “A transparent-winged bug sets down … by Chris ...", also was a Master Motif.
..C) So, as is true for other similar MASTER MOTIFS, 1) The above lazy resting transparent wing bug, flexing wings, (is like unto), 2) The whole passage "A partridge."… Both of these (and many more), might be taken as telegrams => Foretelling That => Important Momentous Events Are Ahead!! …. Especially the whole partridge “ passage, which should be taken as => Foretell that imortan events, WILL take place in these Mountains, just ahead!
..E) AND Partridge. … >Is Surely A Foretelling!!! => Of Soon There WILL be = A Powerfu,l Unforgettable, Climatic Series of Philosophic Mountain Climb Events. AND these Are About To Happen, In this case leading up to Chris shouts =>…..”Blue Sky!”
..F) Where we will see that the Narrator Concludes =>
…..“And at that point, when he wrote that, he knew he had reached some kind of culmination of thought he had been unconsciously striving for over a long period of time.
SUMMARY:
….The above bird passage => "A partridge." . might be taken as a telegram =>
…. Foreshadowing => Important Momentous Events Are Just Ahead!
Is this such a Telegram? Is this again, Author Pirsig’s method, to alert the reader => That There Soon Will be => A, Powerful Unforgettable Series of Events, which In this case is =>
…. “Now he knew it was coming.”
…. “This means Quality is not just the result of a collision between subject and object. The very existence of subject and object themselves is deduced from the Quality event. The Quality event is the cause of the subjects and objects, which are then mistakenly presumed to be the cause of the Quality!”

All This Is Surly-=> A Fore-Announcing That Were Lodged In => Several Innocent Looking “Partridge “ Sentences.
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….If You Are Aware Of Other Similar Examples, Please Send Email To HenryG__USCA.edu
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(Photo = NC4b Resize1000x1333.JPG ...... ZMM Page = 167 to 169 ...... WayPt = N+C 04b = 2.42 mi fm DeWeese.)

A GoogleEarth View of Cottonwood Canyon, Showing Waypoints N+C 08-09, For The Most Likely Gallatin National Forest, Mountain Climb Route That => Fits The ZMM Book’s Narrator + Chris Climb Narrative. View Looking ~East.

Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin Gateway, MT.
REPEAT FROM PREVIOUS: VIEWING NOTES:
…A) The GoogleEarth photo image you see above, shows the Mountain Landscape of the next FOUR photos, but since it is a 2D Image it is difficult to perceive any 3D.
…B) To REALLY SEE the 3D “in” these Mountain Landscapes, study Right Click Here And Request New Tab. Then GoogleEarth will load in an extra Browser Tab. After several minutes to load, at Lower Right, ClickOn 2D, to bring up 3D, then ClickDrag, to Best See the 3D.
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(Photo = ScrnCapt GoogEarth CottnWoodCyn N+C 08-09.jpg...... ZMM Page = 173 ......WayPt ~= N+C 08-09)

When On The Trail In Cottonwood Canyon, The ZMM Narrator Can Now See Mountain Peaks With Snow. =>
….This Is Seen Beyond a Forested Ridge, That He and Chris Will Eventually Cross Over.

…. “Just up above the top of the ridge the snow can be seen now. On foot it’s many days away though. The rocks below it are too steep for a direct hiking climb, particularly with the heavy loads we are carrying, and Chris is way too young for any kind of ropes-and- pitons stuff. We must cross over the forested ridge we are now approaching, enter another canyon, follow it to its end and then come back at an upward angle along to the ridge. Three days hard to the snow. Four days easy. If we don’t show up in nine, DeWeese will start looking for us.
…We stop for a rest, sit down and brace against a tree so that we don’t topple over backward from the packs. After a while I reach around over my shoulder, take the machete from the top of my pack and hand it to Chris.
…"See those two aspens over there? The straight ones? At the edge?" I point to them. "Cut those down about a foot from the ground."
…"Why?"
….."We’ll need them later for hiking sticks and tent poles."
Chris takes the machete, starts to rise but then settles back again. "You cut them," he says.
So I take the machete and go over and cut the poles. They both cut neatly in one swing, except for the final strip of bark, which I sever with the back hook of the machete.
…Up in the rocks you need the poles for balancing and the pine up above is no good for poles, and this is about the last of the aspen here. It bothers me a little though that Chris is turning down work. Not a good sign in the mountains.
…A short rest and then on we go. It’ll take a while to get used to this load. There’s a negative reaction to all the weight. “

Upper Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, MT.

….Here are the clues, so far, as to where the Narrator and Chris have hiked =>
...a) Not far from DeWeese Home: they are in a deep narrow canyon which has very steep sides such that you must look up to see the sky.
..b) They cannot see out the canyon sides, but at one place, looking ahead (up canyon) they can see snow, which we learn is 3 to 4 hiking days away.
….NOTE: Although not stated, we may infer that the edge of the snow is their intended goal. My study of Topo Maps, for Gallatin National Forest, shows Mt. Blackmore as one of the better candidates for Summer Snow. This is some 12 miles away from the DeWeese home depending on route.
….Considering a typical walking speed is said to be 3-4 miles/hour (and a Trail Hike WebPage says 1.5 miles/hour), we might expect these 12 miles to take 3-4 hours (or 8 hours), and thus wonder why the Narrator allows .” Three days hard to the snow. Four days easy.”
…Here, Author Robert Pirsig may be allowing for 11 year old Chris to have a slower speed, and less than 4 hours per day. ’ s
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(Photo = NC8i Resize1000x1333.JPG ...... ZMM Page = 173 ...... WayPt N+C 08 6560ft = 2.23 mi fm DeWeese.)

CLOSE UP VIEW => When On The Trail In Cottonwood Canyon, The ZMM Narrator Can Now See Mountain Peaks With Snow.

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(Photo = NC8j Resize1000x1333.JPG ...... ZMM Page = 173 ...... WayPt N+C 08 6560ft = 2.23mi fm DeWeese.)

When On The Trail In Cottonwood Canyon, In The WINTER TIME,
…We Can See Mountain Peaks Fully Covered With Snow.

… No applicable ZMM Passage.

Upper Cottonwood Canyon, Gallatin National Forest, MT.

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(Photo = IMG_1285 (1) Resize1000x1333.jpg ...... ZMM Page = 173 ...... WayPt N+C 08 6560ft = 2.23 mi fm DeWeese.)

From The Gallatin National Forest Trail, A View Of Cottonwood Creek, Where Cottonwood Canyon Is Very Wide.
…At The Sky Line, The “V” Between The Mountains Is Where Fox Creek & Canyon Are Located.

….No applicable ZMM Passage

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(Photo = NC8k Resize1000x1333.JPG ...... ZMM Page = 173 ...... WayPt N+C 08a ~6560ft = 2.3 mi fm DeWeese.)