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The next morning we awoke to a commotion. When we got outside, we saw that the Hippies of Kristiania were all standing in the street looking in the same direction towards a mountain. I looked. There was a plume of black smoke emanating from a bunch of trees half way up the mountain. “That is where the Earth Mother temple is,” said Thoreau as he emerged from the lodge behind us. “This is bad. They’ve never struck so close.” We left immediately. The mountain was bigger than it looked from Kristiania. It actually took us half the day to get there. I estimated that it was nearly ten miles as the crow flies. Though, it could have been less. The rough terrain was horrible for my odometer and we had to take winding paths to go over some steep slopes. We actually drove more like three times that distance.
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