Wild

  

“I’d bypassed. Passed by. I was out of danger now. I’d leapfrogged over the snow. It was clear sailing through the rest of California, I supposed.” (1)
“…when I rounded a bend, I came upon a field of snow. Or rather, what I took to be a field, which implied there was an end to it.”  (10)
Use the space below the following two quotes to explain the connection between them.