There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been.

- Richard Proenneke

To look around at what you have accomplished in a day gives a man a good feeling. Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completeness s…

- Richard Proenneke

Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completion, satisfies me.

- Richard Proenneke

Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can't help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcook…

- Richard Proenneke

I have thought briefly about getting caught in rock slides or falling from a rock face. If that happened, I would probably perish on the mountain in …

- Richard Proenneke