“It is hard to be brave when you’re only a Very Small Animal.”
Egads! (plural of course). First Tigger and now Piglet. First Paul Winchell and now John Fiedler. The ODD tapestry unravels one cherished thread at a time. (And if you are keeping a log at home it doth appear that Piglet left the Hundred Acre Wood first (Saturday) and then Tigger, but that’s only for the accountants in the group). You’ll have to admit that its hard to pooh-pooh the talents of these two fine gentlemen.
Vera Komarkova place was decidedly on top. By all accounts she was a powerful climber and held her own in the so-called man’s sport of mountain climbing. Women climbing were rather unheard of when she started and it was generally believed that women were not physically and emotionally strong enough to manage the demands of climbing. Vera could climb, but she also earned a PhD in Biology from the University of Colorado in Boulder. As her dissertation she wrote a detailed study of the alpine fauna of the Indian Peaks area of the Rockies that is still considered the definitive work on the subject. She could no doubt as easily hold up her end of the conversation as belay you. Mighty nice combination we think.
Out of the Hundred Acre Wood and into the alpine regions and higher we ODDly march. Since the summer season has descended on the northern hemisphere mayhaps this bloggeral will inspire you to get out, lace up your Lowas
