Years ago I knew a guy in Maine, Jasper Hutchins, who lived a stone's throw from a major tourist attraction, the highest point of land on the Atlantic coast north of Rio. I asked him if he went up there often. His pithy Downeast reply: "Ain't lost nuthin' up there; don't hafta go look for it." Well, that's Neira's mature view of hiking: Been there, done that.
Why walk, she would ask if she could, when heaven is right at our doorstep? We can only oblige her.