Filling up your cup with spring water fresh from the mountain depths is the epiphany of survival in the backcountry without all the atrocities of modern civilization. With water contamination being such a worldwide epidemic, it’s a rare experience to drink unfiltered water without a care. Some are more skeptical than others, but I take the opportunity as much as I can. Yes, it’s just water but the symbolize is much more. It feels rooted to our past and tastes delicious.
Too bad it’s not little streams of alcohol a-trickling down the rocks or a lake of stew and of whiskey too, as Harry McClintock explained his dreamworld.