More on the Hickey Pickles (or, as LEJ in Colorado calls them, Hikipikalt) - the turtleneck cover-up of the ritualistic purple mark on the neck is seen today in the attire of the ski culture, which is also directly connected to the sliding down of slopes (wood slats replacing fruit). The branch that split off in the cowboy direction (scarf or bandana around the neck) were the group who used their atlatl on the katlkatl, and drove the first herds up here from Texas. The original spelling was, of course, Hikipikatl, but years of the spelling error -kalt instead of -katl (as in our earlier thread on this subject) has caused Hikipikalt to become commonly accepted.
The song, after all, comes from Idaho. We have an abundance of both cattle ranches and ski resorts here in the Rockies.

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