In February 2004 we took a really cold backpacking trip into Panthertown. We had spent the past couple of years braving the Colorado winters, and I figured we wouldn’t have any problems backpacking in North Carolina in February. But, man, humidity makes it feel so much colder. …
He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams. - J.R.R. Tolkien