hiking2christ

What wonders lie in every mountain day!…Crystals of snow, plash of small raindrops, hum of small insects, booming beetles, the jolly rattle of grasshoppers, chirping crickets, the screaming of hawks, jays, and Clark crows, the ‘coo-r-r-r’ of cranes, the honking of geese, partridges drumming, trumpeting swans, frogs croaking, the whirring rattle of snakes, the awful enthusiasm of booming falls, earthquake shocks, the whisper of rills soothing to slumber, the piping of marmots, the bark of squirrels, the laugh of a wolf, the snoring of deer, the explosive roaring of bears, the squeak of mice, the cry of the loon – loneliest, wildest of sounds…

 -John of the Mountains, Pg 92-93

–http://www.alaska-in-pictures.com/snow-bear-929-pictures.htm