On Top of the World!!

... or at least Lone Peak, which uncannily feels like the top of the world when you are about 75% of the way up the mountain! I'm always amazed by how quickly the pain of the climb is forgotten after I'm standing on top of an 8ft square boulder at 11,000ft with a 360-degree view of the land of Zion. The experience definitely called for a verse of "High On the Mountain Top," (and had a friend of mine not permanently spoiled the hymn for me with the badger killing the squirrel, it would have been appropriately spiritual.)