We hiked up to see Arethusa Falls in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. We took our time and were very careful. The trees were an excellent canopy over head, so the rocks, logs, leaves, and ground weren't slippery at all.
As we were climbing, everyone was teasing me by saying, "Look, God must have put these here. How thoughtful!" I'm always giving Aquinas' argument of a priori arrangement of the universe, hence the teasing. There were obviously man made steps and climbing aids, along the trail.
It was a three mile round trip climb. It's approx. 200' high. The trail climb was moderately steady at a nice grade. The view was sweeping. I want to say awesome because to me it is positive proof that there is a God. Nature itself is awesome.
Arethusa was named from the Percy Bysshe Shelley poem about the Greek nymph Arethusa who was turned into a fountain to avoid the love of the river god, Alpheus. See even earlier civilizations acknowledge the divine, even if their theology was different than ours.
