"…Nature, who is superior to all style and ages, is now, with pensive face, composing her poem Autumn, with which no work no will be to be compared." —HDT

This past Saturday was National Public Lands Day. Another day to give back and celebrate the lands we all use and love. Perhaps it a residual of the Catholic Guilt I was raised with, but I feel the need to give back to something I've benefited so much from.

Saturday was just an awesome day. Perfect fall weather, a great crew (including a park tech who was also a corporate refugee from the same salt mine I worked at!) and a fun day of refurbing rock steps used by many climbers. Hauling and moving rocks while helping to construct trail may be difficult work…but when you look out from the steps you just helped construct, see the divide covered with a dusting of snow and take it all in while sipping water…well, it sure is a better view than the grey cube I had worked in previously.

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