Western Ridge Lyrics - David Wilcox

This is where the trail just disappears 

This is where their story ends 

No one knows where they went from here 

But I remember when they drank a toast 

To the route that no one else had tried 

Working up along the western ridge 

Where the watershed divides 

Way up there, they found their 

Place in the sky 

Around the fire, we told the tales 

Of how they'd cut it close before 

And wandered lost after the avalanche 

But stumbled back to camp at dawn 

But now it's much too long to hold the hope 

The glacier ice can echo deep 

I thought, I felt a tug along the rope 

And it pulled me from my sleep 

Working up along the western ridge 

Where the watershed divides 

Way up there, they found their 

Place in the sky 

The air is clear and the ice is blue 

You can see from down below 

That curling up over the eastern side 

Is a silent plume of snow 

Working up along the western ridge 

Where the watershed divides 

Way up there, they found their 

Place in the sky 

Way up there, they found their 

Place in the sky