Fishing Ain't Casting

Hard lessons from the Sierras

I have just returned from an adventure at 7000 feet elevation. I have learned in a couple different ways, why they call them the Rocky Mountains, and I have had a throwback experience. In certain ways it was entirely understandable that I would, as a man in his 60s, desire, suffer through and delight in this journey, noting as I do, the irony of even bo…