“At the door I paused. 'So what was your spirit animal?' 'A dolphin. Fun in the sun, endless summer. What about you?' 'Dee Dee Ramone,' I said, and left.”

Blood /n./ substance commonly used to mark a hiking route.

Choose life … I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?

Alpinist - minus mensch

“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”

Cursed - II

You might be a hiker if…

when you walk into a hiking or camping store your son or daughter demands to hold onto your wallet and credit card until you are safely out of the store and on the way home.

“No influence of ours can save your species from destruction. Nothing could save it but a profound change in your own nature; and that cannot be. Wandering among you, we move always with fore-knowledge of the doom which your own imperfection imposes on you. Even if we could, we would not change it; for it is a theme required in the strange music of the spheres.”