Well, "The Research Team in the Mountains."
This is just made of a number of discoveries.
I went out with the biology, geology group.
"The Research Team in the Mountains.
We found a certain heavy kind of wolf.
I haven't seen it though, just know it.
Answers are just echoes, they say,
but a question travels before it comes back.
And that counts.
Did you know that here everything is free?
We found days that wouldn't allow a price on anything.
When a dirty river and a clean river come together,
the result is dirty river.
If your policy is to be friends in the mountains,
a rock falls on you.
The only real friends, you can't help it.
Many go home having conquered a mountain.
They leave their names at the top and a jar for snow
to remember.
Looking out over the campfire at night, again this year,
I pick a storm for you, again the first one.
We climbed Lostine, and Hurricane, and Chief Joseph
Canyons.
Finally, in every canyon, the road ends.
Above that, storms of stone."
I was thinking about diction when I went to Oregon
and saw all these wonderful names.
I thought Lostine Canyon was good.
It was up in the Wallowas.
I thought, well, this is better than home.
I came from Kansas.
I thought, even the words are better.
So I said, where did they get the name like Lostine?
They said, it's named after a little town in Kansas.
[LAUGHTER]