The Narrator and Chris Have Climbed to Nearly Level to the Opposite Side of the Canyon
“Now that we’re up high on one side of the canyon we can see back and down and across to the other side. It’s as steep there as it is here...a dark mat of greenish-black pines going up to a high ridge. We can measure our progress by sighting against it at what seems like a horizontal angle. .. That’s all the Quality talk for today, I guess, thank goodness. I don’t mind the Quality, it’s just that all the classical talk about it isn’t Quality. Quality is just the focal point around which a lot of intellectual furniture is getting rearranged. .. “
Additional clues as to where the narrator and Chris hiked: The larger canyon they climb out of has both sites of equal steepness. Where they look across to the opposite side, there is no snow or it would have been mentioned. The other side of the canyon also has a ridge described as high and having “ a dark mat of greenish-black pines. Another valuable check to se if the correct route has been found. “
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