I think the theme of White Rabbit is that the author was proud of being alone to discover the beauty of hiking in winter. The evidence is, "Today the reward was the laughter, the sound of myself finding myself alone. And to have been, for a little while, alone. Self-contained. Self sufficient."
I love the sentence which is in page 6, "I who loved neither mountains nor winter loved mountains in winter.", the structure is really good, two negatives make a positive. Also I am attracted by another sentence, "What you need most is imagination, a willingness to step beyond the frame of the everyday, to follow the rabbit.", Here I think the rabbit not only means rabbit but also means heart, follow the rabbit means follow your heart; follow your heart to do anything beyond the frame, beyond the imagination.
I definitely agree that the theme was about the joy of adventuring alone. I also loved the sentence on page 6 that you cited. Keith used contradictions several times throughout this piece, and that was one of my favorites.
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