The Last Sapien | fragile alpine vegy

Fragile Alpine Vegetation | is what the signs state all over the summit, instructing you to stay on the trail and not step on the straggling anyway plants that manage to hold on to life in the extreme weather conditions. After endless climbing reaching the top of one of New Hampshire's ten highest peaks, there was no - you made it, welcome, celebrate success, you fight fatigue and hypothermia simultaneously realizing that you are not alone in your misery. There is no sign to protect you despite the fact that speaking up in the blowing winds and the freezing cold limits you to tiny syllables and fragments of what used to be words.

You pull out your warm cloths to realize that they are just better than nothing, once again Nature -1 , you - Zero in this constant win lose journey you run in the back of your mind.

The views are magnificent in the clear blue skies, making it a perfect picture day, while generating more wind gusts that keep it/us chilly. It limits the time you stay at the summit, or just forces you to hide between the rocks, to allow the wind to go by you than through you. You grab a quick bite from what became a frozen sandwich and ready to move on and down to the trails to a warmer altitude.

On the way down there are more FAV signs protecting the ones that cannot speak for themselves until arriving half way to the base where you can finally talk without the risk of freezing your lungs, handling a conversation with your hike buddies.

Each is reflecting on issues they encounter at work describing all sort of human interactions that are gone wrong. By the time we reached the base passing near by a magnificent resort that is empty and close for the pandemic like a huge statement that nothing is normal these days and that the human being that we are, are not once more fragile than the Alpine Vegetation we try to protect. We just do not have signs that hold others from being sarcastic, harsh, chilly, disrespectful, we do not realize that people could act they way they are because they miss something themselves and are on a quest to get it, filling the void.

We sometimes need to know to show others that we are the FAV