Welcome to Home of the Brave.

It may seem like I have been taking a break and maybe I have been taking a break and maybe I have.

I was trying to work. It's just I wasn't getting anything done.

It was a bad year, but I guess I thought it was best to let it end without comment.

I'd like to begin the new year, however, by playing two more stories about the mountains because the mountains are a good

place to start over and both these stories were done by my friends. The second one

is called Acent to K2 by Joe Frank, and it's probably the greatest mountain climbing story that's ever been told.

And the first one, this one, is like a musical produced by Erica Heilman for her podcast

Rumble Strip. It started with her calling me and asking me to tell her about my

favorite place to go fishing.

Well, Mountain Range in Wyoming is all right. I've called it that before.

But I'd rather not say it by name. I try not to say it the name of the mountains.

There's a place he goes and he never says it by name and he doesn't say it by name

because he doesn't want more people to go there.

You can find a place.

In fact, he hopes you find a place.

He encourages you to find a place. He encourages you to find a place and keep it to yourself.

I was in a Boy Scout troop where the Scoutmaster loved the flyfish. He taught us how to flyfish. We tied our own flies, made our own rods, and for summer camp we'd go to this

mountain range in Wyoming where the fishing was really good. He had to walk like a whole day just to get into it into the mountains, but once

you got up there it was just like primitive. It's a primitive wilderness area. We would leave camp in the

morning and come back at night or you know before dinner and that was fine. No, you know, Scout Masters or parents. We just go off by ourselves even alone. And it's like,

get out of camp, we'll see you later. Which was great that they would never do that now, especially where we were.

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