The way to really see Yosemite National Park," said the Ranger Naturalist, "is to get off the roads and hike! A glorious panorama of the whole valley may be seen by taking Four-Mile Trail to Glacier Point tomorrow."
As the writer and other park visitors began the more than three-thousand-foot climb, aggressive thoughts suggesting that she should turn back kept coming to her. The others were moving much faster, and she wondered as she watched them if she was equal to the climb. Then this passage from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy came to her (p. 426): "The discoverer of Christian Science finds the path less difficult when she has the high goal always before her thoughts, than when she counts her footsteps in endeavoring to reach it. When the destination is desirable, expectation speeds our progress."
Pondering this, her thought was soon elevated above mere physical climbing, and the path became easier. The view of the falls and granite formations from below, then at eye level, then from above, was unspeakably beautiful. Soon the summit was reached.
