Tall, lean, fast, and stealing bases like I want to steal mountains.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Sep 26
The first order of the day, love and loveliness;
In honor of my love for Willie Wilson, base stealer extraordinaire (career 668 stolen bases) mostly for the Kansas City Royals, I climbed Mt. Willey. Jim thought it was in honor of that other Willie. But it was Willie Wilson, I swear.
Some Appalacian Trail hound built all these stairs over slick granite rock,
a major engineering feat, and for what?
The love and loveliness of the trail. It certainly wasn't for the summit rock pile
which was a denoument after all those lovely stairs. The leaves are turning in the mountains, great swaths of orange draped over the hillsides like a New Hampshire Christo.
But Willie Wilson...
Tall, lean, fast, and stealing bases like I want to steal mountains.
Tall, lean, fast, and stealing bases like I want to steal mountains.
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-The mountain is named after Samuel Willey, Jr. (1766–1826) and his family, who in 1825 moved into a house in Crawford Notch. Tragically the family was killed a year later in August 1826 during a landslide.
ReplyDelete-Whoops! No fast ones in the Willey family. Just tall and lean...