Claim Jumper trail on a slow day with no one
there, so the camera man snapped anyone who
wandered by. He caught me, and I like it. See the
smile on my face. Relaxed, thoroughly enjoying the day.
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MY ADVENTURE:
I saw a moonlight snowshoe tour advertised and called to ask if an
old lady with bad knees could join. Sure they said. If it's too much
you can just turn back. For $8 and they supplied the equipment, what a bargain!
There was no instruction on how to fasten the snow shoes. The very
pleasant gal just came by and did it for me.
52 people had signed up on this one hour tour that started at
7:00 PM (before the full moon was up).
After we went a ways I decided it was not a good idea, so I told the
folk behind me I was going back and turned around. I
was not aware of anyone acting as sweep.
It was dark. I saw a light on a building and thought that
was where we had started from so headed for it.
You can guess the rest.
One snow shoe came off. I lost it and
continued with my left foot sinking to the knee with every step.
When I physically couldn't continue, I realized I could roll (like a
kid having fun) and so made it to the fence which I now saw was lined
with wire.
Somehow I put one foot on a rung and rolled myself over and made it
to the front door of a nearby building. Of course this wasn't the building we had started
from.
There was a nice woman however, who took the remaining snow shoe off my foot and walked me back to our starting point.
It was now 10:00 PM and the place was locked. They didn't even know
they had lost someone!
All's well that ends well. I was not hurt,
and frankly
I am quite proud of my stamina.
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