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Mount Franklin's Peak;

fun mountain climb memories

I'm having memories again this day

Memories of El Paso and it's hill

Mount Franklin beckoned me oft before

I would climb the mountain, rocks and all

Then the cable car I'd ride back down

 

I'll climb no more though return I might

Will be in the little orange cage

Up and down, this time I'll ride both ways,

Titanium knee, creaking joints, they beg

Please do leave the climb for younger folk
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Picture credits:

Top:  Summit Posts, Ranger Peak http://www.summitpost.org/ranger-peak/457590

Bottom:  Texas Parks and Wildlife, http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/state-parks/wyler-aerial-tramway

 

Poem copyright, © Jimmiehov 2014, all rights reserved

 

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Today I'm linked with  Hannah  at the Real Toads, Transforming Friday (Link)

 

- Hannah tells us of her planned repeat visit to Maine and some of her plans to climb Maine's Mount Katahdin.  It is Maine's tallest Mountain (5,269 feet), although my Texas highest peak find, Mount Franklin (Wikipedia link), is much taller (7,192 feet, although my Ranger peak is only 5,632 feet--have to climb the rest). (Everything is bigger in Texas!!)

 

- She asked us, "...  if you have a mountain that's grown a granite stone-shape in your heart, by all means, share! "  So I tried that a bit with my little ditty 'poem'.  I climbed that mountain quite often back when I was in the Army, stationed at Ft. Bliss, El Paso, Texas, for five years.