"'Let's go in there, by God we need a man's breakfast if we're gonna climb all day.'"
page 50
Ray says this as the hiking trio is approaching a lodge. This occurs before the group starts to hike. I found this comment and action odd because earlier Japhy discussed their plan to save money. Stopping to eat at a diner does not seem economical or mountainman like.
"Ray when you're up here you're not sittin in a Berkeley tea room. This is the beginning and the end of the wold right here."
page 68
Japhy conveys this idea to Ray as they are reaching the high points of that days ascent. The other member of their party had turned back at this point and the conversation was more open for input from Japhy. Japhy is telling Ray how important traveling into nature is because nature exsisted before humans and will excist after humans. He says that this is a vital component of a whole Buddhist life and cannot be achieved in some Berkeley Tea Room.
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