{"id":9173,"date":"2012-12-04T15:49:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T15:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/04\/the-killer-mountains-strike-again-jesse-capens-remains-found\/"},"modified":"2012-12-04T15:49:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T15:49:47","slug":"the-killer-mountains-strike-again-jesse-capens-remains-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/04\/the-killer-mountains-strike-again-jesse-capens-remains-found\/","title":{"rendered":"The Killer Mountains Strike Again: Jesse Capen’s Remains Found"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>\"Lust<\/a>The Superstitions are not called the Killer Mountains for nothing.  Many a man has been lured to his death in this rugged wilderness by lust for gold. A few days ago, what appear to be the remains of Jesse Capen<\/a> were finally found after nearly three years of searching.  Another obsessive Dutchman Hunter in quest of a nonexistent object,  he went missing in December of 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n

I've seen the movie and it ain't bad. And of course any self-respecting aficionado of the legends and lore, tales and trails of the magnificent Superstitions must see it.  Tom Kollenborn comments in Lust for Gold I<\/a> and Lust for Gold II<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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 As I wrote in Richard Peck, Seeker of Lost Gold<\/a>, <\/span><\/p>\n

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. . . to live well, a man needs a quest. Without a quest, a life lacks the invigorating "strenuosity" that William James preached. But if he quests for something paltry such as lost treasure, it is perhaps best that he never find it. For on a finite quest, the 'gold' is in the seeking, not in the finding. A quest worthy of us, however, cannot be for gold or silver or anything finite and transitory. A quest worthy of us must aim beyond the ephemeral, towards something whose finding would complete rather than debilitate us. Nevertheless, every quest has something in it of the ultimate quest, and can be respected in some measure for that reason.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The Superstitions are not called the Killer Mountains for nothing.  Many a man has been lured to his death in this rugged wilderness by lust for gold. A few days ago, what appear to be the remains of Jesse Capen were finally found after nearly three years of searching.  Another obsessive Dutchman Hunter in quest … Continue reading “The Killer Mountains Strike Again: Jesse Capen’s Remains Found”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,132,39,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-hiking-and-backpacking","category-human-predicament","category-questers-and-other-oddballs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}