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Edward Orton, Jr., formerly State Geologist 

 of Ohio, who spent weeks toiling over and map- 

 ping the Mills Moraine on the east slope of 

 Long's Peak, gave a glimpse of what one may 

 feel and enjoy from nature investigation in his 

 closing remarks concerning this experience. He 

 said, "If one adds to the physical pleasures of 

 mountaineering, the intellectual delight of look- 

 ing with the seeing eye, of explaining, interpret- 

 ing, and understanding the gigantic forces 

 which have wrought these wonders; if by these 

 studies one's vision may be extended past the 

 sublime beauties of the present down through 

 the dim ages of the past until each carved and 

 bastioned peak tells a romance above words; if 

 by communion with this greatness, one's soul is 

 uplifted and attuned into fuller accord with the 

 great cosmic forces of which we are the higher 

 manifestation, then mountaineering becomes 

 not a pastime but an inspiration." 



