Charlie, I hope this thread has been just one great chapter in a long, wonderful book. I came across this quote from John Muir and thought of you: "The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops."