Because It's There

In today's Dinette Set, Burl and Joy ascend a mountain using their car:

• As if the reader needed more proof of Burl's lack of ambition.
• To meet a pack of climbers, at least 2 of whom wear screen door pants, and one of whom (behind the man in the Vail hat) has a right leg which appears to be over 7 feet long.
  
• While a biplane flies at over 14,000 feet, the world high altitude record for women pilots at the time of Amelia Earhart.
• To hold both head and arm in an unnatural position while trying to look nonchalant.