A most excellent description -- especially the switchbacks; a completion of the atmosphere would be a 'fist bump' every time you connect with the same people....over and over. The only other time that I have experienced this same atmosphere in the 'wilderness' (que up the audience laughter) was Half Dome. Both destinations are uniquely stunning with ease of access, but the "confluence of incongruities" (to qoute Les McCann) is hard to take at times.
The body betrays and the weather conspires, hopefully, not on the same day.
