Glancing Excursions

[rich]

me, it was a hockey stick in the face--i got to tell my friends I
fought off two or three goons and the girls were very impressed (which
made the continual facial pain worth it)

my Transit of Venus

On 7/6/09, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Dave Monroe<against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> (quoting)
>>
>> Perhaps the most popular example of Mount Shasta lore, and a legend
>> involving the first claim by non-Native Americans for a spiritual
>> connection with the mountain, concerns the mystical brotherhood
>> believed to roam through jeweled corridors deep inside the mountain.
>
> I once had a semi-mystical experience on Mt. Shasta.
>
> I was descending the mountain the easy and fast way, which is to dig
> your heels into the loose, crumbly rock above the tree line (scree)
> and sort of ski down.
>
> The only bad thing is the danger of setting free loose larger rocks
> and getting hit by one, which is what happened to me this time.
>
> I was lying there seeing stars for several seconds.
>
> P
>