One slavishly ticks their way through the “100 Crowded Hikes of ____” guidebooks, but at some point, a revelation bubbles up: look beyond the known and appreciate the natural world for what it is…a wonderful invitation to deep dive into self discovery, and twig onto the fact that there is more than one way to get there.
This one involved an aberration onto a ridge walk in the Purcell Range with Blake and Bryon that afforded even better views of the route that Doug, Baiba and i stumbled upon when we were slavishly following our noses (referencing Google Earth 😉 quite a few years ago).